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A Marxist summary of working-class party & union vicissitudes in Europe from abortive 1848 workers' rebellions to the post-WWII ossification of Social Democracy. Abendroth, Prof. of Politics at the Univ. of Marburg, outlines schisms within the 1st & 2nd Internationals & charts post-WWI gains of the SPD, British Labour & loosely knit French socialists. Ideological errors of Proudhonists, Anarcho-Syndicalists, Bakuninites & others who are unorthodox are noted. The SPD is scored for permitting organizational strength to cover up political cowardice. Kuczynski's The Rise of the Working Class ('67) is a better guide to the growth of laboring-class consciousness in this period than this survey. For interwar years, Abendroth blames Stalinist distortions, capitalist cunning & the rift between Communists & Social Democrats for the triumphs of Fascism--& attributes the sepulchral pace of Social Democratic advances after WWII to the lingering "widespread belief in the stability of the capitalist order in the West." In gauging working-class consciousness Abendroth--who rarely looks beyond electoral figures--hopes that pressure from students & trade unions may yet regenerate moribund parliamentary parties which at present don't "reflect the new spirit at the base." A cliched account of political & economic victories & losses narrowly computed.
İkinci El
A Marxist summary of working-class party & union vicissitudes in Europe from abortive 1848 workers' rebellions to the post-WWII ossification of Social Democracy. Abendroth, Prof. of Politics at the Univ. of Marburg, outlines schisms within the 1st & 2nd Internationals & charts post-WWI gains of the SPD, British Labour & loosely knit French socialists. Ideological errors of Proudhonists, Anarcho-Syndicalists, Bakuninites & others who are unorthodox are noted. The SPD is scored for permitting organizational strength to cover up political cowardice. Kuczynski's The Rise of the Working Class ('67) is a better guide to the growth of laboring-class consciousness in this period than this survey. For interwar years, Abendroth blames Stalinist distortions, capitalist cunning & the rift between Communists & Social Democrats for the triumphs of Fascism--& attributes the sepulchral pace of Social Democratic advances after WWII to the lingering "widespread belief in the stability of the capitalist order in the West." In gauging working-class consciousness Abendroth--who rarely looks beyond electoral figures--hopes that pressure from students & trade unions may yet regenerate moribund parliamentary parties which at present don't "reflect the new spirit at the base." A cliched account of political & economic victories & losses narrowly computed.