LP wrote: "In the historic split between the reformists of the Second International and the Comintern, there was never any difference over the goal. Both Lenin and Eduard Bernstein claimed that they were in favor of a classless society."
1. For elementary historical accuracy, it must be noted that Bernstein definitely abandoned the socialist goal. He is famous for putting his credo into an aphorism, "The socialist movement is everything to me while what people commonly call the goal of Socialism is nothing." 2. Bernstein lived in the nineteenth century, and Lenin accomplished the bulk of his revolutionary work, and castigated Bernsteinites, before the Comintern existed. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
