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Yes. The Bolsheviks absolutely had marches and demonstrations leading up to the revolution. And many strikes would inevitably be followed up with mass demonstrations of people in the streets on top of the many other mass mobilizations that led to things like International Womens Day and bloody sunday that led to an explosion of revolutionary consciousness and exposed the state as a weapon of class oppression.

The same is true with the Chinese revolution- of course there was a protracted armed struggle- but this was after many mass mobilizations that led to things like the May 4th movement, which led to the CPC itself. Even in new China, demonstrations and mass mobilization played a massive role in things like the great proletarian cultural revolution and shaped modern china post revolution. Even during the long march, the CPC went through each town and set up Lenin Clubs (which often offered simple social activities like ping pong or basketball) and put on revolutionary opera performances (typically just a way to draw in peasants to a message about uniting china against japanese imperialism, not socialism itself)

Neither of those movements started in material conditions even remotely like ours, at least at the moment