Social Democracy

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rakesh:
Grossmann did not oppose parliamentary work or reforms. He argued
that the latter could not hold and that the state could not steer the
economy. He as trying to revolutionize the practice of German
communists in 1929. Seems prescient to me.

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CB: Rakesh , you are known here for reading a lot, but you have not read too many ( any) of what you call orthodox Marxists, if you are claiming that said Marxists claim that reforms, Keynesian or otherwise, "could hold" or solve the problems of capitalism. The more you imply it , the more it seems disingenuous. It basically undermines your credibility in the rest of your argument when you claim that your school of Marxists are the only one's who assert emphatically that capitalism can't be reformed.  Are you claiming that Lenin held that capitalism could be reformed ?  Are you claiming that the German Communist Party of 1929 held that capitalism could be reformed ?