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(ama ul velar onc WUD? Oe ee en ee eee et ete Aen ted ere et Gupe a Ved Qnurr aru A Grads VO\ Uy §. WAS irdener | : B. ‘AMATE fiSeaNss AND ECGNOMISM We must now deal with a question that has undoubtedly arisen in the mind of every reader. Can a connection be established between amateurishness, this disord ! affecting the whole of the movement, and-Econamism, which is one of the trends in Russian Social-Democracy? We think that ie can. Lack of practical training, lack of ability to carry on organizational work is certainly common fo us ail, includ- ing those who have from the very outset unswervingly stood for revolutionary Marxism. And, of course, were it only lack of practical training, no one could blame the practical work- ers. But the term “‘amatcurishness” embraces somcthing else: it denotes a narrow scope of revolution: all Arie ood organization of revglution- aries cannot be built ¢ basis OF such narrow activity, aud lastty— and most important — it_denotes attempts to d to elevate it to a special “theory; i.c., bowing in worship to spontancity on this TOTT C00. Once such attempts were observed, it_became. certain that amateurishness is connected with Economism and that we mre ee eg grr ah A SS eee A rn ne shall Tiever Ghiminate this narrowness of our organizational c 2 narrow conception of Marxist theory, of the role of Social- Demdcracy and of its political tasks). And these attempts were revealed in a twofold-direction. Some began to say: the mass of workers themselves have not yet advanced the hroad and militant political tasks that the revolutionarics are attempting to “impose” upon them; they must continue, for the time being, to fight for isacdiate political demands, tu conduct “the economic struggic against the employers and 124 tivity ung! we climinate Economism generally (ic, the _unul Wwe climinate Economism genera tac. the government’* {and, naturall: struggle which is “easily understoc the most untrained youth). Othe kind of “gradualness,” began to s not require building a strong org: to train the proletariat in the stead All we need do is to snatch up o: wooden club. Speaking without must organize a general strike,** “spiritless” progress of the workiat of “excitative terror.”*** Both th. and the “‘revolutionists,” bow to ness; neither believes that it can be stands our primary and most i namely, to establish an arganizatio: of maintaining the energy, stabi: political struggl ¢ have just quoted the words the working-class movement is 01 development of the revolution “valuable remark of a close obser comment on B—v’s article) ha: It shows that we were right in ou. cause of the present crisis in Rv * The Rabochaya Myst and the Raboc’ to Pickhanov. **See “Who Will Bring About the symposium published in Russia, entit: Reissued by the Kiev Committee. *t* Regeneration of Ravolutiontssn and must be an organization that will essary to “bring about 2 political -