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And to Charles, I suggest the bolsheviks were only a (thin) majority due to
a walk-out on the part of a couple of dissenting socialist organisations.
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CB: How did they allow themselves to get pegged with the name "Minority" if they were
really tuned into democracy ? In democracy, a thin majority is still a majority.
The point about involving workers in politics is democratic point too. The Mensheviks
were against involving workers directly in politics, let alone workers developing
their own theory and consciousness to socialist consciousness. What is missed about
Lenin's quote about the necessity of intellectuals bringing a missing element to
workers consciousness is that the Mensheviks did not have the position that , "oh no,
workers can develop socialist consciousness on their own and spontaneously". The
Mensheviks would have intellectuals also serve exclusively as the workers political
representatives. The Mensheviks were to the right of Lenin on this issue.
Also, in one pamphlet around the revolution of 1905, Lenin proposes a 20 to one ratio
of workers to intellectuals in the Party as optimum.
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