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Centrist Marxism
Position between reform and revolution
Centrist Marxism
Centrist Marxism represents a political position between revolution and reformism. Within the Marxist movement, centrism thus entails a specific meaning between the left-wing revolutionary socialism (exemplified by communism and classical Marxism) and the right-wing reformist socialism (exemplified by social democracy, evolutionary socialism, and Marxist revisionism). For instance, the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and the British Independent Labour Party (ILP) were both seen as centrist because they oscillated between reaching a socialist economy through reforms and advocating a socialist revolution. The parties that belonged to the Two-and-a-half International (International Working Union of Socialist Parties) and Three-and-a-half internationals (International Revolutionary Marxist Centre), who could not choose between the reformism of the Second International and the revolutionary politics of the Third International, were also exemplary of centrism in this sense...
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