Reformism

The terms reformism or legality tactics describe the tendency of a party, the existing political system of a country on the path of reforms, that is, under the full renunciation of revolutionary actions, in another, often lead to entirely different. It is essential here that both the peel, split- political system and that can be to be created autocratic.

Although the term was originally used to reformism only within Marxism, he also finds use in COVERS on liberalism and fascism in the present.

Subspecies

Socialism

Although already passed with the Chartists and the Fabian Society in Britain reformist - socialist organizations, Eduard Bernstein applies in Germany and Austria as the founder of theoretical reformism. In his work, The Premises of Socialism and the Tasks of Social Democracy, he underwent the existing Marx's theory of radical criticism and argued for the transformation of the SPD in a purely reformist party.

As a result, formed a reformist right wing of the party, who took over these claims, which initially faced a centrist majority. The revolutionary wing of the party to Rosa Luxembourg remained insignificant until the formation of the Spartacus League.

After 1918 reformism became the dominant flow within social democracy, so that the terms are used more or less synonymously in the present.

Liberalism

The majority of liberal movements in Europe in the 19th century was reformist in the sense that they strove for the conversion of the former absolute monarchies into constitutional monarchies in the way of reforms. However, there was no formation of concepts to describe reformist liberal as opposed to revolutionary liberals, because they unlike, for example, the Socialists no common parties talking. - The revolutionary liberals called themselves "Republicans " (France ) " radicals" (UK and Switzerland ) or " Democrats " ( Germany ). The term " liberal" on the other hand closed implicitly a reformist attitude with a. This traditional terminology was retained in the respective countries.

In Prussia, reformist and revolutionary liberals were temporarily a joint party that DFP. This should, however, on the question of whether the policy of unification was Otto von Bismarck to support or fight, split into fairly liberal - reformist NLP and the left-liberal, at the beginning (still) revolutionary-minded DTVP.

Fascism

After the failure of the Hitler- Ludendorff Putsch of 1923, Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini chose the model to follow and abandon his original plans for the violent seizure of power by the storm troopers of the Nazi Party. This attitude In 1930 he brought the following expression:

As a result, formed an oriented legality of Hitler's tactics wing of the party and by the same Joseph Goebbels and a revolutionary wing of the party headed by Ernst Roehm and Gregor Strasser.

In the same manner, before the Italian PNF had reorganized reformist. The Japanese Kōdōha should realign as reformist response to the failure of the " Ni- niroku jiken " Putsch their behavior.

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