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John O'Mahony continues his series of articles on the roots of Bolshevism
"The Russian proletarian is no novice in the revolutionary movement. You know that it was a worker who blew up the imperial palace in February 1880. The very idea for this action was conceived in a workers' group."
G V Plekhanov and Vera Zasulich, Letter to the International Socialist Congress, 1891
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John O'Mahony continues his series of articles on the roots of Bolshevism
Populism "denied a future to Russian capitalism. The proletariat was assigned no independent role at all in the revolution. It happened accidentally, however, that propaganda designed in its content for the villages found a sympathetic response only in the cities... assembling only the intelligentsia and some individual industrial workers".
Leon Trotsky, The Young Lenin
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"The question of the city workers is one of those that it may be said will be moved forward automatically by life itself to an appropriate place, in spite of the a priori theoretical decision of the revolutionary leaders".
G V Plekhanov, in the journal of Zemlya i Volya
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In the first instalment of this series I traced in broad outline the populist revolutionary environment in which Russian Marxism emerged.
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By Sean Matgamna
The October Revolution of 1917 seemed to many observers to be an attempt to stand Marxism on its head.
