Ernest Mandel

The Leninist Theory of Organisation

Its Relevance for Today

(1970)

First published in English in International Socialist Review, Vol.31, No.9, December 1970.
Republished as a pamphlet: Ernest Mandel, The Leninist Theory of Organisation, London 1971.
REprinted in Ernest Mandel, Revolutionary Marxism and Social Reality in the 20th Century, Atlantic Highlands (NJ) 1994.
Downloaded with thanks from the Mandel Archive at International Socialist Group.
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1. Introduction

2. Bourgeois ideology and proletarian class consciousness

3. Proletarian class struggle and proletarian class consciousness

4. The revolutionary vanguard and spontaneous mass action

5. Organisation, bureaucracy and revolutionary action

6. Organisational theory, revolutionary program, revolutionary practice

7. Organisational theory, democratic centralism and soviet democracy

8. Sociology of economism, bureaucratism and spontaneity

9. Scientific intelligentsia, social science and proletarian class consciousness

10. Historical pedagogy and communication of class consciousness

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