One: the Bolsheviks waged an intense ideological and propaganda struggle against the Mensheviks, publishing frequent polemics against the Mensheviks’ erroneous positions in Bolshevik aligned printed media.
Two: the Bolsheviks had the advantage of being in the majority, with most of the workers’ Soviets being Bolshevik aligned just before the revolution. The DKP has virtually no presence in most German unions today, nor among most of the left-leaning intelligentsia (leftist university students, etc.).
As for the point two, Bolsheviks were actually vastly outnumbered by Mensheviks and SRs in both the unions and the Soviets until a couple months before the Revolution, only gaining the majority support later due to their consistent anti-war and anti-burgois stance and the other parties being committed to continuing the war, constantly siding with capitalists and landlords and refusing to take power from the Provisional Government.
Thanks comrade. I wanted to point at that but i was unsure if i had gotten it wrong. That said, theory says we should not chase numbers but get correct analysis and praxis, the numbers will come.
Its “left communism” i think where a lot of this is laid out.
One: the Bolsheviks waged an intense ideological and propaganda struggle against the Mensheviks, publishing frequent polemics against the Mensheviks’ erroneous positions in Bolshevik aligned printed media.
Two: the Bolsheviks had the advantage of being in the majority, with most of the workers’ Soviets being Bolshevik aligned just before the revolution. The DKP has virtually no presence in most German unions today, nor among most of the left-leaning intelligentsia (leftist university students, etc.).
As for the point two, Bolsheviks were actually vastly outnumbered by Mensheviks and SRs in both the unions and the Soviets until a couple months before the Revolution, only gaining the majority support later due to their consistent anti-war and anti-burgois stance and the other parties being committed to continuing the war, constantly siding with capitalists and landlords and refusing to take power from the Provisional Government.
Thanks comrade. I wanted to point at that but i was unsure if i had gotten it wrong. That said, theory says we should not chase numbers but get correct analysis and praxis, the numbers will come.
Its “left communism” i think where a lot of this is laid out.