Sylwia آمنة 🏳️⚧️ (nprofile…twud) chjara (nprofile…ds47) lucy :lucyinsidegoogly: era (nprofile…0fkk) I don't think that the mainstream marxist approach of a mass party movement would have worked in russia at that time because they weren't industrialized and had a really low literacy rate. try teaching complex anarchist theory to someone who can't read while reactionary forces are trying to put the czar back in place. additionally, they were literally in a war with like 7 different countries at that time that needed to be ended as quickly as possible. a lot of people say that they should have waited for a revolution in a more developed and industrialized country like germany but ultimately german communism didn't end up going anywhere. that's why the adaptation of marxism to russia's conditions at that time (i.e. a vanguard party) seems like a good choice to me - unlike germany, they actually got a successful revolution done.
I do agree that they should have allowed a less top-down approach in cities where there the proletariat clearly demonstrated the necessary education to organize, i.e. kronstadt etc. and given them autonomy.