That organization was Lenin s party, popularly known as the Bolsheviks. In its ranks, the Russian communist party counted some of the most experienced activists and dedicated revolutionary workers. It embodied the historical experience of the working-class movement. During the revolutionary events of 1917, the workers movement would have lost its way or even faced annihilation if not for the program, slogans and tactics employed by the Bolsheviks. Under capitalism, Marx and Engels explained, workers must sell their labor-power to a boss.
Workers create all value.
But by not paying workers the full value of what they produce through their labor, the bosses rob the fruits as profit. The workers have nothing to lose and everything to gain by seizing political power and taking over the factories, stores and banks. Then a rational, planned restructuring of the economy can begin. In 1871 workers in Paris arose and began to carry out these measures. They created the Paris Commune, a new form of political power based on workers rule.