ABSTRACT

To be successful, insurrection must rely not upon conspiracy and not upon a party…but upon a revolutionary popular upsurge…. Insurrection must rely upon that turning-point in the history of the growing revolution when the activity of the advanced ranks of the people are at its height and when the vacillations in the ranks of the enemy and in the ranks of the weak, half-hearted and irresolute friends of the revolution are strongest….