Léninisme et vie intellectuelle La polémique de 1905 entre Brjusov et Lenin

摘要

Gérard Abensour, Leninism and the intellectual life. Polemic in 1905 between Briusov and Lenin. In 1905, Lenin wrote an article which since then serves as reference on the standpoint advised by him with regard to the liberty of creation and expression within the party, which, at the time, was called the "Social Democrat" party. On pretext of defending the party's freedom against hypothetical enemies who had penetrated it, Lenin contrasts the liberty of association with that of speech, as though these were two antithetical notions. As noted by the poet Briusov in an indignant article entitled "The freedom of speech", Lenin ends by forbidding intellectual creation not only within his party but even in any country under his domination in view of the fact that the object pursued by the party is to obtain command for itself alone over the entire people. The analysis of Briusov is of November 1905. Its conclusions seem still valid.