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Revolutionary Organization
Brinton, Maurice
http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/brinton/1961/05/organization.htmhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1961/05/organization.htm Publisher: Agitator Year Published: 1961 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX10574 We here wish to examine one of the most fervently adhered to dogmas of the "Left": the need for a tightly centralized socialist party, controlled by a carefully selected leadership. The Labour Party describes this type of organization as an essential feature of British democracy in practice. The Bolsheviks describe it as a "democratic centralism". Let us forget the names and look below the surface. In both cases we find the complete domination of the party in all matters of organization and policy by a fairly small group of professional "leaders". Subject Headings |