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BOG PERSON

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4. "If you can achieve them under capitalism, why wait?"

Reply to Starry Messenger (Reply #3)

Sun Nov 4, 2012, 04:26 PM

Nov 2012

i dont know, this seems like a rationalization of reformism. i mean it would be one thing to be a plain reformist and say revolution is bad and unnecessary, but to say it's possible to put a practical sort of reformism in service to the revolution? i don't know if history bears this out...

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Lenin on the Need to Fight for Democracy Under Capitalism [View all] Starry Messenger Aug 2012 OP

Sorry to kick up an old thread, but I'm having an argument with someone elsewhere. Starry Messenger Nov 2012 #1

does struggle for democracy in this sense BOG PERSON Nov 2012 #2

No, I don't think so. Starry Messenger Nov 2012 #3

"If you can achieve them under capitalism, why wait?" BOG PERSON Nov 2012 #4

This was the argument I was in elsewhere. Starry Messenger Nov 2012 #5