It's a combination of organizing whoever's willing to organize now, and preparing for when things get so much worse that people are disillusioned and desperate enough to embrace revolutionary politics on a large scale.
I wonder: what percentage of the Russian Empire's public supported the Bolsheviks, say, three years before the October Revolution?
Millions of people living in poverty conditions under a Tzar is the gunpowder that sparked the October revolution.
In America, too many people are comfortable with their adequate material conditions to really ignite a class war. Capital knows this too. Keep the leash just long enough to grant just a little bit of freedom
I'm pretty sure Lenin said in 1913 or 1914, that there was no chance of a revolution ever happening in his homeland while he was still alive. Of course he didn't quite foresee the absolutely idiocy the Tzar would display in the Great War, or probably even that a war of such destructive proportions could even happen.
It's a combination of organizing whoever's willing to organize now, and preparing for when things get so much worse that people are disillusioned and desperate enough to embrace revolutionary politics on a large scale.
I wonder: what percentage of the Russian Empire's public supported the Bolsheviks, say, three years before the October Revolution?
basically zero
Millions of people living in poverty conditions under a Tzar is the gunpowder that sparked the October revolution.
In America, too many people are comfortable with their adequate material conditions to really ignite a class war. Capital knows this too. Keep the leash just long enough to grant just a little bit of freedom
I'm pretty sure Lenin said in 1913 or 1914, that there was no chance of a revolution ever happening in his homeland while he was still alive. Of course he didn't quite foresee the absolutely idiocy the Tzar would display in the Great War, or probably even that a war of such destructive proportions could even happen.