The Heart of the Problem

Interesting, is it not, to recall that Lenin and Trotsky once belonged to the “Russian Social Democratic Labor Party,” until the Bolsheviks hived off from the Mensheviks. As a distinguished Argentine friend used to put it: “Social democracy is the antechamber of Communism.” Was he necessarily or invariably right?

I note merely, for today, that Clement Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell were undoubtedly social democrats and that the party each once led, if returned to power in Britain’s next general elections, would quite rapidly turn the United Kingdom into a people’s democracy. So clear has this become even to those who for years went along with the ideological decadence of the British Labor Party that they have formed a Social Democratic Party of their own.

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Brian Crozier

Interesting, is it not, to recall that Lenin and Trotsky once belonged to the “Russian Social Democratic Labor Party,” until the Bolsheviks hived off from the Mensheviks. As a distinguished Argentine friend used to put it: “Social democracy is the antechamber of Communism.” Was he necessarily or invariably right?

I note merely, for today, that Clement Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell were undoubtedly social democrats and that the party each once led, if returned to power in Britain’s next general elections, would quite rapidly turn the United Kingdom into a people’s democracy. So clear has this become even to those who for years went along with the ideological decadence of the British Labor Party that they have formed a Social Democratic Party of their own.