Lenin on organization

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Identifikator:: 869807978

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-400

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Russlands Bankerott

Place of publication:: Berlin-Charlottenburg

Publisher:: Plutus Verlag

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource ([5] Blatt, 125 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: I. Zur Warnung.

Collection:: Economics Books

LENIN ON ORGANIZATION of the central points of the question. Is it true that this principle (which allows a person who does not belong to any organization of the Party, but who only “in one way or another helps it”) is really a Social Democratic principle? Plekhanov gave the only possible reply to this question: ‘Axelrod was wrong in his reference to the ’seventies. There existed at that time, an execellent organization with a magnificently disciplined centre; around it were gathered groups of various kinds which it had created; beyond these organizations sheer chaos and anarchy. The component parts of this chaos called themselves members of the Party, but from this circumstance the cause did not gain, but, on the contrary, lost. We must not imitate the anarchy of the ’seventies, we must avoid it.” Thus, the “principle” which Comrade Axelrod wanted to pass off as a Social Democratic principle, is in fact a principle of anarchy. In order to confute this, the possibility of control, guidance and discipline out- side the Party must be demonstrated; the necessity for applying the name of Party member to the “elements of the chaos” must be proven. Neither the one nor the other can be proved by the defenders of the draft of Comrade Martov. Comrade Axelrod took as an example: “a professor who regards him- self ag a Social Democrat and declares the fact.” To finish off the idea which this example implies, Comrade Axelrod ought to have further stated whether the organized Social Democrats themselves regard the professor as a Social Democrat? Not 122

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