The October Revolution taught militants party discipline while masses learned Soviet power
Evidence
Firstly, the supreme lesson for party militants everywhere was the role played by a highly organised, disciplined revolutionary party. In Italy, the quickest to appreciate this lesson was Amadeo Bordiga, and it is this more than anything else that explains his absolute dominance of the P.C.I. at its formation. But October had a second meaning, which for the proletarian masses was primary, and this was as the installation of Soviet power. The idea of these new institutions of proletarian power, which could both play a role in the revolutionary process and provide the institutional basis for the proletarian State, swept round the world. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 81
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: The revolutionary-party vs. spontaneous-institutions tension connects to the Foundations scaffold on vanguard parties and later Leninism debates.