RED DAVE
11th October 2010, 23:17
http://www.permanentrevolution.net/entry/2284
This article gives and excellent summary of how the Bolshevik delegates (all workers) functioned in the Tsarist Dumas (parliaments) between 1905 and 1917. There are no illusions about making a class block with the native bourgeoisie. The purpose of the Bolshevik faction was to engage in class war.
It's a reminder to left groups of whatever politics as to how to function in a capitalist parliament.
Lenin summed up the difference between the future of the workers’ representatives and the other parliamentarians: “Some leave the Duma rostrum to become ministers, others, workers’ deputies, to become convicts."RED DAVE
This article gives and excellent summary of how the Bolshevik delegates (all workers) functioned in the Tsarist Dumas (parliaments) between 1905 and 1917. There are no illusions about making a class block with the native bourgeoisie. The purpose of the Bolshevik faction was to engage in class war.
It's a reminder to left groups of whatever politics as to how to function in a capitalist parliament.
Lenin summed up the difference between the future of the workers’ representatives and the other parliamentarians: “Some leave the Duma rostrum to become ministers, others, workers’ deputies, to become convicts."RED DAVE