Blanquism

[3] In another respect, Blanqui was more concerned with the revolution itself rather than the future society that would result from it—if his thought was based on precise socialist principles.

The CRC was weakened by a split in 1888, when numerous members (Henri Rochefort) followed General Georges Boulanger who synthesized Jacobin nationalism with socialism.

As Engels put it in a short fragment, The Program of the Blanquist Fugitives from the Paris Commune: Blanqui is essentially a political revolutionist.

[4]Rosa Luxemburg and Eduard Bernstein[5] have criticised Vladimir Lenin that his conception of revolution was elitist and essentially Blanquist.

For instance, as part of a longer section on Blanquism in her Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy (later published as Leninism or Marxism?

), Luxemburg writes: For Lenin, the difference between the Social Democracy and Blanquism is reduced to the observation that in place of a handful of conspirators we have a class-conscious proletariat.

Pull the chestnuts out of the fire for the bourgeoisie,[7] but don't dare to think of such madness, anarchism, Blanquism, as fighting for complete power for the people!