blanquism

Use of the term 'Blanquism'

Lenin, however, dismissed as meaningless rhetoric the conflation of Blanquism with Bolshevism:

The term 'Blanquism' has often been used polemically to accuse some revolutionaries of failing to sufficiently meld their praxis with the mass working class.

Sorel claimed that although Marx had initially denounced Pierre-Joseph Proudhon while supporting Blanquism, that Marx later synthesized ideas from both Blanquism and Proudhonism together.

Narodnaya Volya did not succeed in enlisting the peasantry in its work, which would later lead Soviet historians to charge it with Blanquism; these historians would argue that Narodnaya Volya understood political struggle only in terms of conspiracy and, therefore, looked more like a sect.