Spontaneity

Spontaneity is an opportunist and tailist approach to revolutionary practice which rejects the necessity for the advanced elements of the proletariat to form a vanguard party and instead upholds the spontaneity of the masses as the primary driver of revolution. Spontaneity is upheld most by anarchists and other libertarian socialists.

The theory of spontaneity has rarely gained any success, with sporadic and disorganized actions by the working class doing little against the oppressive bourgeois state. Without a communist party composed of the most politically advanced workers, the socialist movement is relegated to trade union consciousness and unable to make meaningful gains beyond certain concessions by the ruling class.

See also

• Tailism
• Right opportunism