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Reform or Revolution - by Rosa Luxemburg (Paperback)

Reform or Revolution - by  Rosa Luxemburg (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>2021 Reprint of the 1937 Edition. <em>Reform or Revolution</em> is the classic statement of the position of scientific socialism on the questions of capitalist development, 'historical necessity, ' social reforms, the State, democracy and the character of the proletarian revolution. It was written in criticism of the ideas presented by Eduard Bernstein, a proponent of more gradual change or "reform" as opposed to orthodox theories of revolution as espoused by Marx and Luxembourg. At the age of twenty-seven, she had established herself as a major figure in the <em>Second International</em> by offering one of the most comprehensive criticisms of Bernstein's revisionist call to prioritize the method of reform over that of revolution. A close friend and collaborator of Engels, a Marxist of impeccable credentials but also a pioneering advocate of gay rights, Bernstein was also the first to articulate a non revolutionary path to socialism in what is widely considered the founding text of modern social democracy: <em>The Preconditions of Socialism and the Tasks of Social Democracy</em> (1899). At stake in Bernstein's dilemma, she argued, was not just a tactical choice, a mere discussion about this or that method of struggle; it was the "very existence of the Social Democratic movement" as a distinctive force in the struggle against capitalism.</p>

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