LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
OPPORTUNISM IN ORGANIZATION QUESTIONS.
(From “One Step Forward, Two Back”).
The proletariat has no other weapon in the fight
for power except organization. Disorganized by
the domination of anarchic competition in the capitalist
 world, oppressed by forced labor for the capitalists,
 constantly forced ‘to the depths” of utter
poverty, ignorance and degeneracy, the proletariat
can become and inevitably will become an indomitable
 force only because its intellectual unity created
by the principles of Marxism is fortified by the material
 unity of organization which welds millions
of toilers into an army of the working class. Neither
the decrepit rule of Russian autocracy nor the ageing
 rule of international capitalism will be able to
withstand this army. This army will close up its
ranks more and more closely in spite of zig-zags
and retreats, in spite of the opportunistic phrases
of the Girondists of contemporary Social Democracy,
 in spite of the smug self-satisfaction of obsolete
 study circleism, and in spite of the brilliance
and bustle of intellectual anarchism.

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