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clogic-190911	Greene, Doug Enaa	Leninism and Blanquism	2018	33	.pdf	application/pdf	13886	584	54	As is clear below, there is a chasm between Blanquism and Marxism on this question: Military conspiracy is Blanquism, if it is organised not by a party of a definite class, if its organisers have not analysed the political moment in general and the international situation in particular, if the party has not on its side the sympathy of the majority of the people, as proved by objective facts, if the development of revolutionary events has not brought about a practical refutation of the conciliatory illusions of the petty bourgeoisie, if the majority of the Soviet-type organs of revolutionary struggle that have been recognised as authoritative or have shown themselves to be such in practice have not been won over, if there has not matured a sentiment in the army (if in war-time) against the government that protracts the unjust war against the will of the whole people, if the slogans of the uprising (like “All power to the Soviets,” “Land to the peasants,” or “Immediate offer of a democratic peace to all the belligerent nations, with an immediate abrogation of all secret treaties and secret diplomacy,” etc.) have not become widely known and popular, if the advanced workers are not sure of the desperate situation of the masses and of the support of the countryside, a support proved by a serious peasant movement or by an uprising against the landowners and the government that defends the landowners, if the country’s economic situation inspires earnest hopes for a favourable solution of the crisis by peaceable and parliamentary means.63 Lenin recognized that no plan of battle necessarily went according to plan, but he believed that without practice, initiative and daring the party would be paralyzed: “the essential thing is to begin at once to learn from actual practice: have no fear of these trial attacks. Lenin Reloaded: Towards a Politics of Truth (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), 151.	cache/clogic-190911.pdf	txt/clogic-190911.txt