Blanquism

In left-wing discourse, 'Blanquism' refers to a conception of revolution generally attributed to Louis Auguste Blanqui which holds that socialist revolution should be carried out by a relatively small group of highly organized and secretive conspirators.

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Comrade Lenin did not bother when the Socialist Revolutionaries charged the Bolsheviks with Blanquism for making the preparations for materialising the upsurge.

A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007

Reliance on the armed might of a minuscule part of the people is Blanquism of the worst kind.

CPI(Marxist) criticism of the Revolutionary Maoists / Naxalites /CPI(Maoist) Abhay N 2007

Lenin adds that Bernstein also accused Marxism of Blanquism.

A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007

The communism of conspiracy, the Blanquism of that time, carries us up through Buonarotti and also through Bazard and the "Carbonari" to the conspiracy of Baboeuf, a true heir of ancient tragedy who hurled himself against fate because there was no connection between his aim and the economic condition of the moment, and he was as yet incapable of bringing upon the political scene a proletariat having a broad class consciousness.

Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History 1896

Again, there are many examples of this: Jacobinism out of the political struggles of the French Revolution; Blanquism out of the Paris Commune; Leninism, Trotskyism and Stalinism out of the Bolshevik Revolution; Councilism out of the Sparticist Uprising;

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Again, there are many examples of this: Jacobinism out of the political struggles of the French Revolution; Blanquism out of the Paris Commune; Leninism, Trotskyism and Stalinism out of the Bolshevik Revolution; Councilism out of the Sparticist Uprising;

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Blanquism means the seizure of power by a minority’.

A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007

He wrote: “One of the most vicious and probably most widespread distortions of Marxism resorted to by the dominant “socialist” parties is the opportunist lie that preparation for insurrection, and generally the treatment of insurrection as an art, is “Blanquism”.

A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007

Vaillant looked like a shadow of himself " a shadow of Blanquism, with the traditions of sans culotte PARIS, AND ZIMMERWALD warfare, in an epoch of Raymond Poincar.

My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930