How does a critical mass of workingmen occur ?

[Eniac]

Discuss how and why it appears and what can and should we do to help that process?

[The Feral Underclass]

What is a critical mass of working men?

[Eniac]

enough worker with enough force and enthusiasm, so to say, for a Communist, or rather socialist revolution to happen

[subcp]

Severe economic crisis forces people to act in ways they normally would not (taking over workplaces, re-starting production to meet subsistence needs, geographic self-organization, armed self-defense, etc.)- with the communist fraction of the working-class organized on an international basis participating in the various open forums and organs of workers' power (general or workplace assemblies, committees, councils, etc.) and coordinating that engagement via the class party. But it's not a mechanistic reaction; the experiences of struggle is very important to developing class consciousness, which requires repeated 'false starts', dead-ends, etc. to develop into a high enough level of class consciousness to propel crisis activity into the revolutionary movement for communism (i.e. no February 1917 without 1905; no October 1917 without February 1917- Poland 1980-81 was not possible without the experiences of 1956, 1970, 1976; and so on). But crisis is the environment that class consciousness, the revolutionary minority and objective conditions can coalesce into the critical mass necessary to foster and promote the movement for communism.

[Eniac]

It has been argued that you can't have such a party because a large Communist party would require unity between various leftist movements, arguably even between some diametrically opposite.
What has been said about crisis is absolutely correct, capitalism will push itself to it's own end, but won't give up easy...
Real Communists should then be worse of the capitalists, in order to quicken the process???