Lenin and the Bolsheviks

Socialist Studies, Volume 9, Number 1 (Full Issue)

“…This base had been built over years. In 1916 and1917, Rosa Luxemburg's Spartacists (precursor to the KPD) had "put their advantage as the first outspoken opponents of the war to good use, building themselves strong positions in the party organizations in Stuttgart, Braunschweig, and parts of Berlin" (Morgan 1975, 45). The united front approach emerged out of the experience of the German workers themselves -out of the work, in particular, of the advanced workers influenced by Zetkin and the other Luxemburg-influenced members of the KPD.…”