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aA ack Wty 4 Caadumnerh INESS AND ECGNOMISM ‘h a question that has undoubtedly very reader. Can a connection be curishness, this disord movement, and-Economism, which ssian Social-Democracy> We think cal training, lack of ability to carry certainly common to ys all, includ- the very outset unswervingly stood And, of course, were it only lack ¢ could blame the Practical work. cishness” embraces something else: of revolutions alfy, I cnotes attempts to » clevate it to a s pontaneity on Th TUT! Foo, hserved, it became certain that with Economism and that we trowness “of “Our” Organizational Economism _gencrally y (ie, the -t theory, ‘of the rol + tl tasks). “And these attempts ‘rection. Some began to say: “es have not yer advanced the tasks that the revolutionaries pon them; they must continue, t immediate political demands, "agle againse the employers and e of Social-- te pe, “ ‘, h the government’’* (and, naturally, corresponding to this struggle which is “easily understood” by the mass movement must be an Organization that will be “easily understood’ by the most untrained youth). Others, far removed from any kind of “gradualness,” began to say: it is Possible and nec- " essary to “bring about a Political revolution,” but that does Not require building a Strong organization of revolutionaries fo train the proletariat ip the steadfast and stubborn struggle. All we need do is to snatch up our old friend, the “handy” Sais \- wooden club, Speaking without metaphor it means ~ we must organize a gencral strike,** or we Must stimulate the “spiritless Progress of the working-class movement by means of “excitative fertor."*#* Bort these trends, the Cpportunists and the “‘revolutionists,” bow to the Prevailing amateurish- ness; neither believes that it can be climinated, neither under- stands oug Primary and most imperative tactical task- namely, to Cstablis anization o -Lévolutionaries capable of Maintaining *he_enerey,—stability.and continuity of the political Struggle _. ¢ have just quoted the words of B ~y: “The growth of the working-class movement is Outstripping the 8towth and development of the revolutionary Organizations.” This “valuable remark of 2 close observer” {the Rabocheye Dyelo's * The Rubochaya Atyst and the Rabocheye Delo, especialty the Reply to Pickhanov. “*Sce “Who wit Bring About the Political Revolution? in the SYMposium published in Russia, canted The Proteterian Struggte. Reissued by the Kiey Committee, *** Regeneration of Revolutionisn and the Srabeds.