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 Does not everybody know that there is a need for popular literature for intellectuals too? And is not such literature in fact being written? Imagine the writer of an article on the organization of university or high school students speaking as though it were a great discovery, of the need for organizing the “average student.” A man who wrote such stuff would be laughed at, and rightly so. Give wus, he will be told, your ideas on organization, if you have any, and we ourselves will decide who is “average,” who higher and who lower. If you have any idea on organization of your own all your agonizing over the “masses” and the “average man’ will be simply tedious. Remember that the questions of “politics” and ‘‘organization’ are themselves so serious that they must only be spoken of seriously. We can, and we must, prepare the workers (and the university and high school students too) so as to be able to talk to them about these questions, but once you have started talking about them don’t take refuge behind the “average man” and the “masses” and don’t attempt to put us off with wit- ticisms and phrases*. * “Svoboda,” No. 1., article on “Organization,” p. 66: “The heavy tread of the working class giant will support every demand advanced in the name of Russian Labor.” Written with a capital letter of course! The same writer exclaims: “I am by no means hostile to the intellectuals, but . . .” (this is the but which Stshedrin rendered by the words “ears do not grow above the forehead!”) “but it always angers me frightfully when a man utters a lot of fine phrases and expects them to be accepted because of his own beauty or other merits.” (P. 62). Yes, “it angers me frightfully” too. 92

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