Lenin on organization

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Identifikator:: 1738032973

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-116975

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Author:: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹič http://d-nb.info/gnd/118640402

Title:: Lenin on organization

Place of publication:: Chicago

Publisher:: Daily Worker Pub. Co

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 235 pages

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: III. The amateurishness of the economists and an organization of revolutionaries (From "What is to be done" - February, 1902)

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION stronger and more widespread will be the faith in the power of the Party. And in war, as we know, the important thing is to inspire belief in one’s strength not only in one’s own army, but also in the enemy and the neutrals. Benevolent neutrality may sometimes decide an issue. Given such an organization, based upon a firm theoretical founda- tion and having the Social Democratic organs at its disposal there will be no cause to fear that the movement will be diverted from its course by the numerous ‘foreign’ elements which are attracted to it (on the contrary, we see today how, owing to our amateurishness, many Social Democrats are placing excessive emphasis on the “Credo,” imagin- ing themselves to be the only true Social Demo- crats). In a word, specialization necessarily pre- supposes, and in fact demands, centralization. But B-v. while so excellently describing the neces- sity for specialization, fails in our opinion to give it its proper value in the second part of his argu- ment. He says that the number of revolutionaries of working class origin is not enough. That is absolutely true; ‘the valuable information of a close observer” fully bears out our own view of the causes of the present crisis in the Social Democratic Party and of the means to cure it. Not only are the revolutionaries behind the elemental movement of the masses in general, but even the revolutionary workers are behind the elemental movement of the working class masses. This fact is glaringly con- firmed by the not merely stupid, but even politically 01

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