Marxist Centralism

[Idealism]

"Now if the proletariat and the poor peasants take state power into their own hands, organize themselves quite freely in communes, and unite the action of all the communes in striking at capital, in crushing the resistance of the capitalists, and in transferring the privately-owned railways, factories, land and so on to the entire nation, to the whole of society, won't that be centralism? Won't that be the most consistent democratic centralism and, moreover, proletarian centralism?"-Lenin, State and Revolution, Ch.3

Isnt Lenin describing what anarchists see as decentralization as centralism?

[Tower of Bebel]

Yes. In general, centralism means discipline. Organizationally this includes (or could include) both centralism and decentralization (http://www.revleft.com/vb/russian-revolution-bolshevik-t105660/index.html?t=105660). However, one practical question for revolutionary marxists remains: what generates organizational discipline? Democracy, bureaucracy or sectarianism? Obviously the latter cannot create any discipline while bureaucratic centralism generates sectarianism. That means we need to struggle for genuine democratic centralism. But in practice, at least in the case of the revolutionary left today, things aren't always that easy.