[form of Socialism... by no means understands abolition…]
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form of Socialism... by no means understands abolition of bourgeois relations of production, an abolition that can be effected only by a revolution, but administrative reforms, based on the continued existence of these relations...
By the early 20th century Rosa Luxemburg could confidently assert that the working class bad outgrown such ideas. Buttbe same sort of ideas now dominate most of the world's most powerful and organised working classes.
The spine-crushing, mind-numbing metbods of Stalinism - and the defeats ubich they helped bring about -demoralised and scattered the most thoughtful, educated and militant workers. The political and theoretical culture developed over decades was pulverised and corrupted.
As young militants have come forware from new struggles, social democracy has seemed to them to be the 'democratic' alternative to Stalinism. And for some decades, after World War 2, it seemed to produce tangible results, too, in the form of reforms in the conditions struggle for a new leadership in the labour movement.
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Socialist Organiser no. 124, March 17, 1983, Page I1
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