• TrashCompact [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    That's slightly inaccurate. Social democracy is certainly that old, e.g. the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) was founded in 1863, but when Lenin talks about "social democracy" he usually means something a little different, closer to the modern definition of plain old socialism.

    • bananon [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      True. More correct to say he was apart of the Russian Social Democrats until they split into the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks