On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 02:39 PM, Mark Baugher wrote: > > Not the Mensheviks, right?
Not the Mensheviks. They belonged to the social democratic wing of the 2nd International which advocated for socialism in theory, but limited itself in practice to piecemeal social reforms by electoral means within the framework of capitalist democracy. Where bourgeois democracy did not exist, the social democrats accepted the need for revolutionary action if necessary to overthrow autocratic states, as evidenced by the Menshevik role in the February 1917 uprising against the Tsarist regime. The revolutionary left wanted to replace bourgeois institutions with new forms of proletarian democracy and saw capitalist economic relations as at best a transitory stage following a social revolution and the further development of the productive forces. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34603): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34603 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110506717/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
