{{Ideology
|themecolor = #cd0000
|textcolor = #ffd800
|title = Reformist Marxism
|image =
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German
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Japanese
|caption = Reform will work, trust me guys!
|aliases = RefMarx
Liberal Communism
Marxism-Bernsteinism
Classical Social Democracy
Marxist Social Democracy
Evolutionary Socialism
Japanese Communism
Liberal Marxism
Marxist Humanism
Social Socialism
Opportunism (By Leninism)
Revisionist (By Marxism-Leninism)
Bernstard (Pejoratively, by
Luxemburgism)
4th Generation of the Left (According to Gustavo Bueno and his followers)
Perestroika
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LeftUnity
Culturally Left
Communists
File:Soc.png Socialists
Liberals
Welfarists
Democratic
LeftLib gang
|likes = Reform
Marxian economics
|dislikes = Revolutions
Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932)
Germany
Hjalmar Branting (1860-1925)
Sweden
Karl Renner (1870-1950)
Austria
Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925)
Germany
Thorvald Stauning (1873-1942)
Denmark
Symon Petliura (1879-1926)
Ukraine
Volodymyr Vynnychenko (1880-1951)
Ukraine
Otto Bauer (1881-1938)
Austria
Giacomo Matteotti (1885-1924)
Italy
Volodymyr Sosiura (1898-1965)
Ukraine/
USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022)
USSR/
Russia
John McDonnell (1951-)
UK
Americas
Salvador Allende (1908-1973)
Chile
Michael Harrington (1928-1989)
USA
Asia
Sanzō Nosaka (1892-1993)
Japan
Pushpa Kamal Dahal (1954-)
Nepal (Nowadays)
Africa
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013),
South Africa
|song=Goodbye Forever
Listen! Workers of the World
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Left-Reformism
Marxism
Democratic Socialism
Pacifism
Radicalism
|variants=
Bernsteinism
Cosmopolitan-Libertarian Nationalism
Evolutionary Socialism
Imperialism (Between 1902-1914)
Liberal Socialism
Social Democracy
Reformism
British Road to Socialism/CPB Thought{{Collapse|
Anti-Imperialism
- {{File:Corbynism-ball.png]] Corbynism (sympathetic)
Krushchevism
- File:LabZion.png Labour Zionism
Social Democracy (accused)
Soft Anti-Stalinism
Trotskyism (sympathetic)
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Prachanda Path
Anti-Caste System
Federalism
National Communism
Social Authoritarianism
State Socialism
Laicism
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (Historically; now self-proclaimed)
People's Democracy
Republicanism
Symon Petliura Thought
Anti-Bolshevism
Anti-Imperialism
Anti-Semitism
Federalism (Before 1918)
Left-Wing Nationalism
Left Anti-Communism
Militarism (since 1918)
Pacifism (Before 1918)
Prometheism
Social Authoritarianism
Proto-Social Fascism (Accused, by the Soviets)
Volodymyr Vynnychenko Thought
Anti-Imperialism
Industrialism
Kakistocracy (Accused, debatable)
Left-Social Democracy
Left-Wing Nationalism
Noocracy
Revolutionary Socialism (In his youth)
Reformist Marxism, also called Evolutionary Socialism,[1] Marxist Social Democracy[2] or Bernsteinism is a type of Marxism which seeks to achieve |communism through the use of
reformist means. Reformist Marxism is the precursor of modern
Democratic Socialism
and
Social Democracy.[3] Reformist Marxism today is practiced by the
Japanese Communist Party.[4]
History
Germany
Reformist Marxism has its origins in the writings of Eduard Bernstein, who, while identifying with Marxism, felt that there were significant errors in Marx's writing, and often criticized significant parts of Marxist theory such as the idea of revolution to achieve a socialist society. His work would prove influential to later Marxist revisionists and what would later come to be known as Social Democracy.
Japan
Japanese Communism is an ideology based off of the Japanese Communist Party. It is a form of Marxism with major influences from Democratic Socialism and strong opposition to Neoconservatism in Japan and a focus on maintaining Japan's national sovereignty.
Doctrine
W.I.P.
How to Draw
Bernsteinism
The main design of Reformist Marxism, Bernsteinism uses a variant of the Social Democracy design. The white rose on the red background is replaced with a gold rose on a red background, as to evoke communism.
- Draw a ball
- Fill it with red
- Draw a golden rose in the middle
- Add eyes and you're done!
Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
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Red | #CD0000 | 205, 0, 0 | |
Gold | #FFD800 | 255, 216, 0 |
Japanese Communism
Another alternate design Polcompballers use for Reformist Marxism is the design of Japanese Communist Party, or Japanese Communism for short.
- Draw a ball
- Fill it with red
- Add a silver gear in the middle
- Draw a golden wheat in the middle of the gear
- Add the eyes (preferably slanted)
- Add a tan straw hat to the ball and you’re done!
Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
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Red | #E3213C | 227, 33, 60 | |
Silver | #BAE1E6 | 186, 225, 230 | |
Gold | #F5AD00 | 245, 173, 0 |
Relations
Friends
- Democratic Socialism - Follows in my footsteps quite nicely but he can be a bit TOO utopian, even for me.
- Eurocommunism - He gets me.
- Iron Front - My great son who hates authoritarianism like me.
- Left-Wing Nationalism - Yes, you can show your national pride without being an expansionist militaristic prick
Frenemies
- Social Democracy - Son, what do you mean you just want restrained capitalism? Still much better than your failed child though.
- Marxism - You call yourself 'scientific' yet you oppose me for revising your theories. Don't you understand revision is the basis of science?
- Libertarian Marxism - He goes on about how "the working class cannot use the existing state machinery to establish communism".
- Imperialism - Bringing civilization and progress to backward non-class-conscious peoples is based... but can you actually uplift and enlighten them instead of just exploiting them?
Enemies
- De Leonism - Stop calling me evil!
- Luxemburgism - You abandoned my party and revolted against the Weimar Republic! Looks like he gave you what you deserved.
- Bismarckism - Got some right ideas, but I'll never forgive you for trying to suppress my party.
- Showa-era Dictatorship - A bloodthirsty merciless conqueror, and a bloody hypocrite to boot!
- Anti-Japaneseism - Believe it or not you can denounce Japanese imperialism without this insane racial self-hatred. Seriously, you're not well.
- Anarcho-Communism - You're just a bomb-throwing utopian, who thinks you can build socialism by destroying the only institution that can provide it.
- Leninism - You claim to hate anarchists, yet your idea of destroying the bourgeois state is no different from theirs.
- Trotskyism - You too, but you're worse than him because you're basically a red Neocon. Also screw permanent revolution.
- Stalinism - F*ck off, Tankie!
- Maoism - Your "cultural revolution" was nothing more than pure genocidal insanity!
- Marxism-Leninism - Are you not just Tankie again? Also I'll never forgive you for what you did to Czechoslovakia!
- Marxism-Leninism-Maoism - You too!
Prachanda Path is extremely based though. - Third Way - I don't even recognize my own party anymore.
- Left Communism - You hated the United Front for bringing me in, you like authoritarianism, you hate revisionism, and your entire ideology revolves around a proletarian revolution. You're literally Leninism but worse!
- Dengism - Communist in name only! The treatment of Hong Kong and Uyghurs have NOTHING to do with socialism!
- Neoconservatism - I just wish you'd finally stop that militarization and leave Okinawa.
Further Information
Literature
Wikipedia
- Eduard Bernstein
- Revisionist Marxism
- Reformist Socialism
- History of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
- Japanese Communist Party
- French Communist Party
- John McDonnell
Videos
Gallery
Citations
- ↑ Evolutionary Socialism (1899), Eduard Bernstein
- ↑ Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? in Context, pdf p.495 and pdf p.660 by Lars T. Lih
- ↑ The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism: Eduard Bernstein and Social Democracy by Manfred B. Steger
- ↑ How the Japanese Communist Party Developed Its Theory of Scientific Socialism by Tetsuzo Fuwa