Mark, another factor I neglected to mention to explain the ersatz character of the groups aspiring to be Leninist parties to which we belonged is that they were mainly composed of students and intellectuals, primarily drawn from the New Left. Sporadic attempts to colonize the unions met with only limited success. None of the groups came close to becoming a mass left-wing party of the working class as in the interwar years, less for want of trying or a "crisis of leadership" or "Zinovievist deviations" than, once again, because of the nature of the period.
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