Lenin on organization

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Identifikator:: 1741838835

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-116716

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cassel, Gustav http://d-nb.info/gnd/118519492

Title:: Theoretische Sozialökonomie

Edition:: 4., verb. und wesentl. erw. Aufl.

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Deichert

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XIII, 649 S.; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Drittes Buch. Das Geld

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION simply betray opportunism. A Jacobin who is closely bound up with the organization of the pro- letariat and who is conscious of his class interests is in fact a revolutionary Social Democrat. A Gir- ondist who yearns for the professors and students, who fears the dictatorship of the proletariat and who grows sentimental over the absolute value of democratic demands is in fact an opportunist. Only an opportunist can today still see danger in con- spiratorial organizations when the idea of narrow- ing the political struggle down to a conspiracy has been a thousand times exploded in our literature, and long ago rejected and cast out by life itself, and when the cardinal importance of mass political agitation has been affirmed and re-affirmed ad nau- seum. The real cause of the fear of conspiracy and of Blanquism is to be attributed not to the characteristics revealed in the practice of the move- ment (as Bernstein & Co. have been long and earnestly trying to prove), but to the Girondist timidity of the bourgeois intellectuals, whose psy- chology has so often betrayed itself among present- day Social Democrats. Nothing can be more comic than the desperate attempts made by the new “Iskra” to utter a new word (which has in fact been already uttered a hundred times) by way of warning against the tactics of the French revolu- tionary conspirators of the ’forties and ’sixties. .. ...Forward slowly, zig-zag fashion! (23). We have already heard this motif in connection with the discussion on tactics; we now hear it again in 165

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