Teorijsko-metodologijska razmimoilaženja u istraživanju Marxove i Engelsove teorije partije
Some Theoretical-Metodological Controversies the Theory of the Party in the Analysis of as Given in the Works of Marx and Engels

Summary/Abstract: From the abundant literature dealing with the issues and interpretation of the theory of the party in the works of Marx and Engels, as well as on the basis of his own understanding of the problem, the author suggests some fundamental hypotheses: (a) Marx and Engels evolved the theory of the party as a component of their general theory of the revolution; there are no substantive differences between them as regards this theory; (b) they indicated the need for the independent political organisation of the proletariat into a party as a precondition for their revolutionary action; (c) their approach to the question as to the form of that party is historical and undogmatic; (d) they also worked on the problems of the relationship between the class and the party; (e) they established also theory of class struggle, stressing the interaction between the economic-social and the political struggle of the proletariat; (f) the requirement of the numerical domination of proletarians in the membership and the leadership of the proletarian party was posed by Marx and Engels on the basis of experience and of the principle of self-emancipation of the proletariat; (g) they did not separate the issues of the party and of the avantgarde; (h) they developed the theory of the mediation of the party with regard to communism as o goal and with regard to progress towards that goal; (i) they formulated the basis of a theory of revolutionary communist avantgarde; (k) they applied the basic elements of the dialectics of the principle of democratic centralism to internal relations with in the revolutionary avantgarde.

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