The Emancipation of Labor Groups

A new cadre of russian marxists saw in this strategy an end unto itself, especially in light of the 18 96 saint petersburg strikes. For grigory placanof and pavel axlerod, the lesson of historical materialism was that we must have a democratic bourgeois revolution and then a proletarian socialist revolution, first one, then the next. The emancipation of labor groups feared for its effect on their doctrine of two revolutions.