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Party Organization in Lenin's Comintern
Riddell, John
http://johnriddell.com/2020/11/08/party-organization-in-lenins-cominternDate Written: 2020-11-08 Year Published: 2020 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24325 Many socialist groups today seek to shape their organizational principles in the spirit of "democratic centralism" identified with V.I. Lenin. Yet as historian Lars Lih has demonstrated ("Fortunes of a Formula" and "Further Fortunes of a Formula"), Lenin himself used the term only occasionally, and then with widely varying emphasis. The formula's meaning for socialists today is in fact derived mainly from its application by the Communist International (Comintern) in Lenin's lifetime and under his guidance (1919–23). Subject Headings |