Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

The Section Française, uh, de l'Internationale Ouvrière, it's a unification of a bunch of small groups.

The RSDLP is about unification of a bunch of microscopic circles around an external type ex- exile circles.

And then actually, even spite of the fact that the unification in a certain sense fails as a unification, it still plants the flag of a unified party, and that planted flag is enough to get mass influx in 1905.

Czech Communist Party, there were separate, uh, German Socialist Party in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Socialist Party in Czechoslovakia.

As with the Polish Socialist Party, which at the time of the birth of the Bund had an extremely suspicious attitude towards it and declared that the isolationism of the Bund places it in an adversarial position in relation toward us.

Given its increasingly nationalist tendencies, the Bund could only have conflicting relations with the other branches of Russian social democracy.

Lenin thus describes the discussion he and Martov had with Plekhanov in Geneva in September 1900.

GV shows a phenomenal intolerance by declaring that the Bund is in no way a social democratic organization but that it is simply an exploiting organization that takes advantage of the Russians.

He's already been exiled to, uh, Siberia.

Um, and he's already the leader of the radical Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

Now, I'd always assumed that Bolsheviks were strictly part of, uh, the kind of Marxist world, but here you see it seems to be part of a, a, a social democrat sort of political party.

What, explain that to me.

The name Rakovsky is woven through Balkan history and revolutionary struggles.

Expelled from college for revolutionary activities, young Rakovsky went to Geneva in 1890 and joined the Russian Social Democratic Party.

In 1892, he was arrested in Geneva for an encounter with an agent provocateur.

He was expelled from Berlin the same year for participation in the German labor movement.

Um, yeah, I mean, [sighs] you know, the, the terminology all gets confusing 'cause, you know, social democracy was, was, was, uh, originally just a, you know, synonym for socialism.

You're gonna extend democracy into the social realm, right? The Bolsheviks, uh, were the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, right? You know, uh, that's, that's the, uh, majority faction.

That was the full name, right? They, uh, um, you know, it's what ...

And then like, you know, it, it, it sort of became a synonym first for, you know, being like, uh ...

By the way, that happened in Russia.

Social Democratic Party of Russia had all the factions in it.

And eventually he stamped it.

it became independent and crushed all the other factions.

Here, too, Schleussberg acknowledges, the Bund's action has resulted in a sense of dignity and awareness of the rights of Jewish workers.

Subsequently, the Bund's relations with the Russian Social Democratic Party were not easy.

As with the Polish Socialist Party, which at the time of the birth of the Bund had an extremely suspicious attitude towards it and declared that the isolationism of the Bund places it in an adversarial position in relation toward us.

Given its increasingly nationalist tendencies, the Bund could only have conflicting relations with the other branches of Russian social democracy.

They're not working with us.

And maybe some of these men actually were worried about what they thought a proletarian was, where, of course, we know damn well the Jew was not.

In 1898, the Bund, despite its greater seniority, agreed to join the Russian Social Democratic Party, but as a whole, with full autonomy over Jewish affairs.

It therefore agreed to be a member of the Russian party, but on condition that it did not interfere in its affairs.