• TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    Definitely not. There’s literally like 600 million people in the core added together, you do not need even a tenth of them to be active revolutionaries for something like that to work.

    Think about 50 million people actively erm… doing a Marxism-Leninism. There’s no stopping that.

    In another post, a comrade brought to my attention that just months before the revolution there were only 8,000 party members in the Bolsheviks. That should bring you relief.

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        11 months ago

        Apologies, just did a reading and it said that in February of 1917 they had 24,000 members. By the October of that year they had 200,000.

        Still, 24,000 is a very small number. I’m sure it had to do with the increasingly worsening material conditions and diligent party work done by the Bolsheviks.

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          The Bolsheviks were also not the only ones fighting. It was a broad coalition of hundreds of thousands of people. Not to mention millions of defecting soldiers.

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            NO NEED TO RAIN ON THE PARADE WITH A DOSE OF REALISM OKAY

            Jk, I figured. But still, the fact that it was the Bolsheviks that actually were able to make it happen and seize power is inspiring