Investigations in contemporary politics. Issue 6: Imperialism out now: https://xitter.cf/t.co/zc1JG8RWh5
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![“Something far sadder than breach of discipline is at stake, a confusion between policies of middle-class reform and the Social-Democratic classstruggle. . . . The second root of the [Southern German reformist] Baden errors is in the excessive reliance on parliamentarianism at the expense of mass agitation. . . . Here we are talking about the possible ill effects of the Baden policy on the next Reichstag election, when the very existence or death of Social Democracy in the future is at stake. . . .](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HNBrfl0XUAA4Jc_.jpg?name=orig)
ALT “Something far sadder than breach of discipline is at stake, a confusion between policies of middle-class reform and the Social-Democratic classstruggle. . . . The second root of the [Southern German reformist] Baden errors is in the excessive reliance on parliamentarianism at the expense of mass agitation. . . . Here we are talking about the possible ill effects of the Baden policy on the next Reichstag election, when the very existence or death of Social Democracy in the future is at stake. . . .
![Recently an imposing mass action in the Prussian suffrage agitation [for the mass strike] was simply broken off in order to enable us to devote ourselves to these elections in the coming year. In north Germany [where Kautsky and the orthodoxy prevails] we have this mania for Reichstag elections to which the entire internal party life is sacrificed; in the petit-bourgeois south this same cult of parliamentarianism comes out as a suitably distorted caricature.”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HNBrf9wWIAAsOQe.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Recently an imposing mass action in the Prussian suffrage agitation [for the mass strike] was simply broken off in order to enable us to devote ourselves to these elections in the coming year. In north Germany [where Kautsky and the orthodoxy prevails] we have this mania for Reichstag elections to which the entire internal party life is sacrificed; in the petit-bourgeois south this same cult of parliamentarianism comes out as a suitably distorted caricature.”
