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You need real mass support. Like, huge chunks of the military and/or civilian population sympathetic to the cause. If you don't have the military, you need the people. This is why people here keep telling you to organize your neighbors. You will need help. You'll need people to hide you, feed you, transport you, etc. If you're just a ragtag group on a compound, you ain't shit.
This cannot be overstated
I read Shlyapnikov's memoirs on bolshevik organising 1914-1916, and the need for mass support to wage an underground/illegal struggle really came accross
Like shlyapnikov literally slept in a different workers apartment every night, had to run through back yards and into houses to dodge cops, relying on people for meals, etc
Incidentally members of the underground bolshevik petersburg committee had an average turnover time of 3 months before theyd have to flee the city for safety/mental health reasons, or theyd get arrested