Seizing Power In Russia

When the ruling power starts disintegrating due to awakening of the passive working class, then it leads to various struggle movements. These revolutionaries should not adopt the policies of the prevailing class otherwise they will ever be able to acquire the control. To subvert the ruling power, working class use ‘war of manoeuvre’ i.e. attacking from the front as we see in the case of Bolsheviks in 1917, when the dominant class failed to comply to the common interest of the masses. The other strategy is ‘war of position’ that is demonstrated in the case of Gandhi’s Boycott movement of British goods in India. These are basically long struggles and are won only through cultural and ideological strategies. Gramchi is uses the examples Tsarist Russia and west to explain these concepts.
In the case of Russia, seizing power in an erratic movement was possible but in the case of Western Europe, continuous revolution is vital to transfer power from one class to another as the civil society is settled in the latter