TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:Some

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September 6, 2012 at 6:28 am #87780
ALB
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TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:
Some members may be a little offended as the Communist Manifesto advocates reforms :)

Actually, strictly speaking, the 10 points in the Communist Manifesto were not reforms to be implemented within capitalism but measures to be adopted in what we can now see was the highly unlikely (not to say impossible) event of the Communist League of Germany winning political control there in 1848. The criticism that could be made of them (besides being based on an unrealistic, and unrealisable, assumption) was that they amounted to a programme for state capitalism even if under democratic control. Maybe that was all socialists could advocate as the way forward when conditions were not yet ripe for socialism. Fortunately we are now living in 2012 not 1848 and that dilemma has long ceased to exist.