On 2013-09-23, at 3:48 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...when Lenin was writing about the social democrats of the 1920s, > he was referring to parties that participated in insurrectionary > struggles in Germany. When he characterized the parties of the Second International as "bourgeois" parties, he mainly had in mind the British Labour Party, the tactical orientation to which was the subject of What Is To Be Done. The social Democratic Party in Germany, far from being "insurrectionary" was counter-revolutionary and, as the governing party, crushed the Spartacist uprising and facilitated the right-wing murders of Luxemburg and Liebknecht. > In fact it was a mistake to launch a new > international. Or at the very least to build a 2 1/2 International instead. In hindsight, perhaps. But at the time I expect most on this list, including you and I, would have chosen the Third over the Second. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
