Democratic centralism was the organizational form of revolutionary organizations/parties in the industrial era. Under democratic centralism, democracy meant collective discussion and decision making, while centralism was individual responsibility to carry out the decisions. It is a principle of organization pioneered by Vladimir Lenin and constituted the foundation of his “party of a new type.” […]
The communist movement from the early 1800s to the 1970s was a subjective intellectual response of revolutionaries, seeking to represent the long-term goal of the proletariat during the period of transition from agriculture to industry. The industrial revolution created new classes evolving in antagonism with feudal society. The new classes (capitalist and proletariat) together constituted […]
The past international associations of communist organizations were each called an “International.” Three Internationals have existed, which corresponded to the three great quantitative stages in developing the industrial revolution and the transition from agriculture to industry. Each of these stages produced its corresponding doctrines of the class struggle, which served as the foundation of each […]
Our movement suffers in the first place, ideologically, as well as in practical and organisational respects, from its state of fragmentation, from the almost complete immersion of the overwhelming majority of Social-Democrats in local work, which narrows their outlook, the scope of their activities, and their skill in the maintenance of secrecy and their preparedness. […]
In one sense, the concept of organization for this age is pretty simple. The network centered by a consistent press. On the one hand this press is the voice of the organization, conveying its program and mission, and the conclusions of political policy and strategy of the network as it grows and expands. On the […]