The Workers Opposition
Solidarity London Pamphlet
Kollontai, Alexandra
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Publisher: Solidarity, London, United Kingdom
Year First Published: {14040 The Workers Opposition WORKERS OPPOSITION Solidarity London Pamphlet Kollontai, Alexandra http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/kollonta/1921/workers-opposition/index.htm http://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1921/workers-opposition/index.htm Solidarity London United Kingdom Published in Soviet Russia in January 1921 and banned in March 1921. 1921 1968 70pp BC14040s-WorkersOpposition.jpg PMP Pamphlet Excerpt:
<br>Is it to be bureaucracy or self-activity of the masses? This is the second point of the controversy between the leaders of our Party and the Workers' Opposition. The question of bureaucracy was raised and only superficially discussed at the eighth Soviet Congress. Herein, just as in the question on the part to be played by the trade unions and their problems, the discussion was shifted to a wrong channel. The controversy on this question is more fundamental than it might seem.
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<br>The essence is this: what system of administration in a workers' republic during the period of creation of the economic basis for Communism secures more freedom for the class creative powers? Is it a bureaucratic state system or a system of wide practical self-activity of the working masses? The question relates to the system of administration and the controversy arises between two diametrically opposed principles: bureaucracy or self-activity. And yet they try to squeeze it into the scope of the problem that concerns itself only with methods of animating the Soviet institutions'.
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<br>Wide publicity, freedom of opinion and discussion, the right to criticise within the Party and among the members of the trade unions - such are the decisive steps that can put an end to the prevailing system of bureaucracy. Freedom of criticism, right of different factions freely to present their views at Party meetings, freedom of discussion - are no longer the demands of the Workers' Opposition alone. Under the growing pressure from the masses, a whole series of measures that were demanded by the rank and file. CX7207 0 false true false CX7207.htm [0xc00015c450 0xc0015018c0 0xc001b63f20 0xc000f93e60 0xc001dd5140 0xc002280960 0xc00035d2f0] Cx}
Year Published: 1968
Pages: 70pp Resource Type: Pamphlet
Cx Number: CX7207
Published in Soviet Russia in January 1921 and banned in March 1921.
Abstract:
Excerpt:
Is it to be bureaucracy or self-activity of the masses? This is the second point of the controversy between the leaders of our Party and the Workers' Opposition. The question of bureaucracy was raised and only superficially discussed at the eighth Soviet Congress. Herein, just as in the question on the part to be played by the trade unions and their problems, the discussion was shifted to a wrong channel. The controversy on this question is more fundamental than it might seem.
The essence is this: what system of administration in a workers' republic during the period of creation of the economic basis for Communism secures more freedom for the class creative powers? Is it a bureaucratic state system or a system of wide practical self-activity of the working masses? The question relates to the system of administration and the controversy arises between two diametrically opposed principles: bureaucracy or self-activity. And yet they try to squeeze it into the scope of the problem that concerns itself only with methods of animating the Soviet institutions'.
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Wide publicity, freedom of opinion and discussion, the right to criticise within the Party and among the members of the trade unions - such are the decisive steps that can put an end to the prevailing system of bureaucracy. Freedom of criticism, right of different factions freely to present their views at Party meetings, freedom of discussion - are no longer the demands of the Workers' Opposition alone. Under the growing pressure from the masses, a whole series of measures that were demanded by the rank and file.
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