Prehanof and Kucho's Disenchantment With the Peasants

Plehanof and kucho drew different tactical conclusions, as we talked about last week. Kucho said, the peasants are hopeless. That's why we need a vanguard party of hyper disciplined revolutionaries to do the work of toppling the czar. Prehanof blasted this because it tried to do an end run around historical materialism. A small group of terrorists could not initiate a socialist revolution by blowing up the czal. Feudalism could only be toppled by the historical forces of bourgeois capitalism. The dictatorship of the proletariat was not a dictatorship in the sense that blanquis or kchof used the term,. but it was instead a true democratic majority capturing