Lüko Willms wrote: <snip> > > As the "doctor at the death bed of capitalism", as Hilferding explained. > The > "socialism" they dream of is the "socialism" of Willy Brandt. > The key question for Marxists in Germany is not whether DIE LINKE is reformist or not, but where Marxists should be active given the weakness of Marxism in Germany. My personal view is that they definitely should not be standing on the sidelines making abstract comments about how inadequate DIE LINKE is. That is a recipe for disaster analogous to the "Class against class!" rhetoric of Third-Period Stalinism - although on a lesser scale given that German Marxists today are not as entrenched in the working class as the KPD was.
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