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)

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LENIN ON ORGANIZATION tented to their organization and to launch that organization into a decisive struggle against the autocracy; on the contrary, that is their chief his- torical merit; their mistake was that they based themselves on a theory which in reality was not a revolutionary theory at all, and were unable to bind up their movement indissolubly with the class struggle proceeding within developing capitalist society. Only a gross misunderstanding of Marx- ism (or a ‘“Struvist understanding’ of Marxism) could give rise to the opinion that the growth of the elemental mass movement can save us from the obligation of creating as good, in fact, an incom- parably better, organization of revolutionaries than that of the Zemlevoltzi. On the contrary, the move- ment lays that obligation upon us; for the elemental struggle of the proletariat will not become the real “class struggle” of the proletariat until it is led by a strong organization of revolutionaries. Secondly, many people—including apparently B. Krichevsky (‘“Rabochie Delo,” No. 10, p. 18)—fail to understand the criticism which the Social Demo- crats have always levelled against the ‘“‘conspira- torial” view of the political struggle. We opposed, and of course always will oppose attempts to narrow down the political struggle to a conspiracy * but this naturally does not imply the denial of the neces- sity for a strong revolutionary organization. For * Of. “Tasks of the Russian Social Democrats,” p. 21, the criticism of P. L. Lavrov (Vol. 1 of the Russian edition of the collected works of Lenin.—Ed.). 98

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