the SDP was already significantly to the left to any socdem/demsoc party in existance in the last half century, and it already had revolutionary communist dominant wings from the very begining. It wasnt some socdem party that was taken over by entryism or incremental "incubation" of radical wings
It was during the first international, but after Kautsky and the second international took over when the socialist bans were lifted, the party took a much more moderate stance in a lot of places.
There was still a lot of radical communists inside the orgs, but the orgs themselves were already on the path to reformism before the first world war.
Yes, but even the milquetoast fabian dominated British Labour Party in, say 1925 was a hell of a lot more left than any modern SocDem party since they were made toothless in the 80s
the SDP was already significantly to the left to any socdem/demsoc party in existance in the last half century, and it already had revolutionary communist dominant wings from the very begining. It wasnt some socdem party that was taken over by entryism or incremental "incubation" of radical wings
It was during the first international, but after Kautsky and the second international took over when the socialist bans were lifted, the party took a much more moderate stance in a lot of places.
There was still a lot of radical communists inside the orgs, but the orgs themselves were already on the path to reformism before the first world war.
Yes, but even the milquetoast fabian dominated British Labour Party in, say 1925 was a hell of a lot more left than any modern SocDem party since they were made toothless in the 80s