Entryism

Entrism is a tactic of targeted (and sometimes secret ) penetration in organizations used by various communist, especially of Trotskyist organizations, especially parties in the workers' movement, more rarely of other social movements. Goal may be, from the inside out to influence political decisions, to spread their own ideology to attract members to change the course of the organization or even in times of marginalization or prohibition revolutionary organizations not be completely isolated from the political process to have ( " hibernation entry" ) or a legal political work opportunity.

Historical development

The tactics of entrism was from the mid 1920s by members of the Essenes direction of KAP - applied the later Red fighters as well as from one part of the followers of Karl Korsch within the SPD and from 1931 also in the SAPD. In 1934, a piece of advice Trotsky the majority of the French Trotskyists in the Socialist SFIO, since in this revolutionary part of the party youth, including to Trotskyist positions moved back and Trotsky wanted this win for the building of the Fourth International. Trotsky himself said on the subject entrism. ". The entrism into a reformist party has no long -term perspective, but can be used temporarily under certain conditions " Similar steps were limited to a few years and often ended with the exclusion, were in the U.S. and made ​​in Belgium. the success of the tactics in France was limited, in the United States managed to win the majority of the ( numerically small ) youth organization of the Socialist Party of America.

After the downturn in the class struggle at the beginning of the 1950s the members of the Group of the Fourth International stood by Ernest Mandel and Michel Pablo in Western Europe oriented in the social democratic or on the Soviet Union Communist parties, since it was based on the assumption that a future radicalization of working class would play primarily in the existing working-class parties. This approach was abandoned in the wake of the 1968 student movement and the simultaneous strike movements such as France and Italy. Inspired by Ted Grant organizations of the CWI ( in Germany worked its section AHEAD from 1974 to (real) January 1992 ( formally) in 1994 in the SPD) followed the entrism strategy until the early 1990s. Grant and his followers go - in contrast to " classical" Entrismuskonzepten - on the assumption that it is possible by long -term entrism win social democratic reformist parties (in the sense of Ted Grant) as a whole for revolutionary positions, which at least in the Labour Party in Britain locally and temporarily succeeded in Liverpool and the youth organization of Labour. A split-off from CWI minority, the International Marxist Tendency / IMT, continues this policy continues today. The German IMT- section The spark oriented zzt entrist their work. clear on the constructive cooperation in the youth structures of the Left Party. The Austrian IMT- section The spark oriented their work entrist still consistently on the cooperation in the Socialist Youth Austria reichts the SPÖ. The old AHEAD flow managed to be influential in individual regional Jusogliederungen. The entrism the group shift to the left, which the group between 1994-1999 was practiced, in contrast, short-term investments and had the membership of the SPD and the Young Socialists little influence. Members were obtained mainly under previously disorganized individuals. The Linksruck Association gave in May 2007, its self-dissolution in favor of employees in the Left Party on the platform " marx21 " known.

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