No.25
Would you describe yourself more as a Bolshevist or as a Menshevist?
>Bolshevism: strong leadership, individuals as avant-garde, hard core of the party makes the policies, professional revolutionaries
>Menshevism: more spread out leadership, mass party membership, party policies by everyone, large representation of the populace
After reading/listening up how Occupy failed I am firmly in the Bolshevist camp. Menshevist-organized groups are simply too prone to being hijacked by foreign vocal interest groups (in the case of Occupy, SJWs) and by shills (g.g. agent provocateurs).
Occupy also lacked a vision and voice, their message as muddled and unclear to the public.
Sure a Bolshevist group is more exclusionary, it is less an "ark" for disaffected ordinary citizens. But I think this makes it much more effective.
No.26
Occupy is a special case since its members have been politically neutered in the last fifty years. "What do we want? Social justice! How do we achieve it? Sociali… ermm no can't say that."
Their message was unclear because they had no fucking message. Until workers grow some balls and unite again against capitalism, no protest can be successfull without message.
Bolshevism is self-defeating ideology. There's no way to prevent opportunists from taking control of the revolution and you end up with hierarchical state, no different from fascism. It's a cure that kills the patient.