Concept
Mensheviks
Overview
faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
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It was perfectly clear that in that form the party could not last long. With regard to ideas, it proved impotent from the very start. Politically, the guiding role belonged to the Mensheviks who had gone through the school of Marxism and derived from it certain procedures and habits, which aided them in finding their bearings in the political situation to the extent of scientifically falsifying the meaning of the…
Leon Trotsky, From October to Brest-Litovsk
The chapter “THE S. R.'S AND MENSHEVIKS” is titled for Mensheviks; names Mensheviks twice.
It is just for this reason that we speak of the militarization of labor. The fate of the Mensheviks is to drag along at the tail of events, and to recognize those parts of the revolutionary programme which have already had time to lose all practical significance. To-day the Mensheviks, albeit with reservations, do not deny the lawfulness of stern measures with the White Guards and with deserters from the Red Army…
Leon Trotsky, Dictatorship vs. Democracy
States what Mensheviks is; names Mensheviks several times.
In the third place, he cannot address any meetings, because the halls all belong to the State. The whole of the press is, of course, official; no independent daily is permitted. In spite of all these obstacles, the Mensheviks have succeeded in winning about 40 seats out of 1,500 on the Moscow Soviet, by being known in certain large factories where the electoral campaign could be conducted by word of mouth. They won…
Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Names Mensheviks.
Philosophers who discussed Mensheviks
Related ideas
- Vladimir Lenin
- Marxism
- Socialism
- Cornell University Press
- Georgi Plekhanov
- Socialist Revolutionary Party
- Reformism
- World War I
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Communism.