Blanquism
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Blanquism refers to a conception of revolution generally attributed to Louis-Auguste Blanqui that holds that socialist revolution should be carried out by a relatively small group of highly organised
Louis-Auguste Blanqui
Rosa Luxemburg
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Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish and naturalised-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary. She was a leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and later co-founded the anti-war Spartacus
Blanquism
…of force at the opportune moment, could carry the mass of the people with them by a few successes at the start and thus make a victorious revolution. Rosa Luxemburg and Eduard Bernstein have criticised Vladimir Lenin on the grounds that his conception of revolution was elitist and essentially Blanquist. For instance…
Luxemburg, c. 1911
Luxemburg at about age 12, c. 1883
Leo Jogiches c. 1890
Luxemburg, c. 1893