Second International Marxism

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Second International Marxism is the strand of socialist theory and practice developed within the Second International (1889–1916), characterized by its emphasis on parliamentary struggle, mass parties, and debates over reform versus revolution in the workers’ movement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Marxist tendency
socialist theory
associatedWithOrganization Second International
centralDebate mass strike strategy
reform versus revolution
role of parliament in socialist transition
coreMethod building mass workers’ organizations
parliamentary road to socialism
use of universal suffrage
crisis outbreak of World War I
support of many parties for war credits in 1914
developedInContextOf Second International
emphasizes electoral politics
mass workers’ parties
parliamentary struggle
trade union organization
endTime 1916
hasInternalTendency centrism
left radicalism
orthodox Marxism
revisionism
hasKeyConcept class struggle
dictatorship of the proletariat
imperialism
mass strike
minimum and maximum program
national question
orthodox Marxism
party of the working class
revisionism
socialist democracy
hasNotableProponent Anton Pannekoek
August Bebel
Clara Zetkin
Eduard Bernstein
Georgi Plekhanov
Jean Jaurès
Karl Kautsky
Otto Bauer
Rosa Luxemburg
Rudolf Hilferding
Vladimir Lenin
historicalContext late 19th century capitalism
pre–World War I Europe
influenced Eurocommunism
Third International Marxism
labour parties in Europe
social democracy
influencedBy First International Marxism
Friedrich Engels
German Social Democracy
Karl Marx
languageOfDebate French
German
Russian
resultedIn split of the international socialist movement
startTime 1889
typicalOrganizationForm mass socialist party
trade union federation

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Old Left influencedBy Second International Marxism
History and Class Consciousness criticizes Second International Marxism
The Development of the Monist View of History movement Second International Marxism
The Road to Power movement Second International Marxism
Parti ouvrier français basedOn Erfurt Program-style Marxism
linked to: Second International Marxism
Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International mainSubject Marxism of the Second International
linked to: Second International Marxism