"You can only (directly) intervene in your own actions; when advocating change to others, give a plan following from their and your action." Agreed.

In a democracy, the most likely outcome of widespread proletariat outrage at anti-labor laws is simply pro-labor reform of those laws. So, the Machiavellian communists must have had some plan to further escalate working class anger before it could take its natural course. "We must destroy X to save it" also reminds me of the motivation of every other bad-movie villain (nothing annoys me more than an illogical villain, except a bad screenwriter).