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 course, of “all arms”) no police in the world will be able to cope with them, because such companies of men who are unreservedly devoted to the revolu- tion will enjoy the unreserved confidence of the wide masses of the workers. And it is directly our fault that the workers are only too little “pushed on” along the path of professional revolutionary training, which they should follow in common with the “intellectuals”; we only too often drag them back by our silly ideas of what is “open” to the working class masses, the “average workers,” etc. In this, as in other respects, the narrow scope of our organizational work is directly and insepara- bly dependent upon the narrowness of our theory and our political tasks (although this is not recog- nized by the overwhelming majority of the “econ- omists” and young practitioners). Worship of the elemental produces a veritable fear of departing even one step from what is “open” to the masses, a fear of rising above the mere service of the imme- diate and direct needs of the masses. Have no fear, gentlemen! As far as organization is concerned, we are on so low a level that the mere thought that we can rise too high is absurd! (e) A ‘“Conspiratorial” Organization and “Democracy.” Yet there are many among us who are so sensitive to “the voice of life” that they fear this above any- thing else; they accuse those who advance views such as we have here set forth of “Narodovolism,” of failure to understand “democracy” and so on. 06

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