| - Means majority | -Means "Minority" |
| -Faction is in the minority according to members |
-Faction is in the majority according to the numbers |
| -Lenin is Leader | -Martov is leader |
| -Attracted more gentry and peasants -Peasants were not of farming class but those who came to the city in search of jobs. |
-Attracted more lower class inhabitants; skilled workers, as well as intellectual and professional people |
| -Consisted mainly of Great Russians | -Consisted mostly of non-Russians |
| -Lenin wanted a more centralized organization in which rank and file would be subservient to the center | -Martov wanted a more loose |
| -Belived there should be an immediate Proletarian insurrection and taking over of the government | -Believed that society had to progress naturally, and not by force, to Socialism |
| -Focus mainly on carrying out and standing for factory workers and large part of the poor peasants | -Intellectuals instinctively took side of the propertied classes |
� This is the social group they both claimed to represent
� Both factions need support by the industrial labor group
� Workers (who had knowledge on political matters) saw Social Democrats as being on their sides
� Workers did not want them as leaders