{"id":8496,"date":"2017-07-19T19:24:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T19:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/litci.org\/en\/?p=8496"},"modified":"2022-10-01T22:31:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T22:31:52","slug":"the-spontaneous-and-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/the-spontaneous-and-the-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spontaneous and the Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The explosion of the Russian Revolution of February 1917 was not scheduled on any politician<\/em><em>\u2019<\/em><em>s agenda, nor was it a product of the <\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><em>high level of consciousness<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><em> of the people. It exploded as a rebellion of female textile workers against their work conditions, and it expanded like wildfire because of the general misery, the killing in the World War front, and the repression against any opposition&#8230; the protest was so strong and generalized that the government of the Tsar was left <\/em><em>\u201c<\/em><em>suspended in the air,<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><em> and its capability of exercising its authority shook completely.<\/em><!--more--><strong>By Juan P.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelow,\u201d the Soviets and Popular and Workers\u2019Councils were reborn. Originally they served to organized the demonstrations, but they also started working like a \u201cnew power\u201d. However, the main political parties of the time, including the socialists and left-wing parties, decided to support a \u201cprovisional government\u201d led by an aristocrat who held the social situation on a similar level to what it was under the Tsarist rule.<br \/>\nSo, the spontaneous revolutionary momentum of the working people caused a strong political crisis, \u201chealed\u201d by the main political parties that changed the faces of the government to help change anything essential about it. Something similar \u2013with obvious, important differences- to what happened here, in the Spanish State, with the political crisis opened after M15, the miners\u2019 struggles, the general strikes, the Marches for Dignity&#8230;: the generalized demonstration \u201cbelow\u201d but without a centralized leadership provoked a crisis of political legitimacy of the institutions, later wrapped up by the \u201cnew parties,\u201d which generated illusions in the vote as if those same institutions could change the situation. We went from the slogan \u201cSurround the Congress\u201d to try to elect many deputies for that same Congress.<br \/>\nThe particularity with Russia is that the dual power situation was really deep, and the instability went on for months, deepening along with the \u201cprovisional governments\u201d not complying with their promises of change. Like in the beginning, the deepening of the crisis did not have bases on an \u201cadvanced ideological consciousness\u201d but on the imperious necessity of the vast majority of the population to put an end to their daily hardships.<br \/>\nIn this frame, a small \u201cradical\u201dpolitical party grew in influence stating that, to satisfy the popular necessities, the Soviets should rule, and they needed to declare immediate peace and carry out an Agrarian Reform to divide the land of the aristocratic land-owners, and that workers should control the companies and the economy; that all nationalities had the right to speak their own languages and even declare its independence if they wished; that discrimination towards women should end&#8230; it was the Bolshevik Party.<br \/>\nAnd this party not only said that but its members encouraged every workers\u2019 strike, every popular demonstration, every soldiers mutiny, every land occupation&#8230; and in each one of these conflicts, the party would say \u201cAll power to the Soviets!\u201d When the right moment came, when there was the possibility of going from words to facts, the Bolshevik Party made a plan to give the final hit: it displayed its \u201cred guard\u201d along the key points of Petrograd, the capital of the country, and stopped the \u201cprovisional government,\u201d and the recently inaugurated National Congress of All Soviets chose a new government. For the first time, a political party (although very different to the other ones) did not serve to close the political crisis for things to continue the same but actually took advantage of that crisis to change it all.<br \/>\nNo party can \u201cforce\u201d the situation and \u201ccause\u201d a revolution. But neither can a spontaneous social convulsion triumph unless there is an organizing axis, a revolutionary party to transform the convulsion into an organized fight for power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The explosion of the Russian Revolution of February 1917 was not scheduled on any politician\u2019s agenda, nor was it a product of the \u201chigh level of consciousness\u201d of the people. 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