Mark, I don't disagree that that some periods leave more lasting gains than others. I was addressing Eric Blanc's comment that the growth of the reformist Socialist Party "did not come at the cost of dropping radical politics" until it was defeated in Wisconsin in 1939. By suggesting that revolutionary and reform socialism follow the same "trajectory", I meant that that mass politics reflected the ebb and flow of workplace class struggle, and that the SP's mass appeal and political fortunes were tied to working class militancy in its heyday 1900-20. It was then the party of Debs as well as Berger and Hillquit. Its membership dropped and so did its "radical politics" after the first red scare. In the 30's and 40's, militants from the rising industrial unions looked to the CP and smaller offshoots like the SWP to express their radical politics rather than to the SP. The SP's growth is tracked here: https://depts.washington.edu/moves/SP_map-members.shtml
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