Democracy and Revolution
IS THE modern socialist movement a "conspiracy"? Does socialist revolution imply the aim of conquest of power by a small minority of skilled insurrectionists who would seize the advantage in some kind of crisis and impose some improvised junta? This is in effect the picture which the government witch-hunters paint of Marxist socialism, in the course of their crusade against the Stalinists, though the latter have long ago abandoned both socialism and Marxism. This picture is a complete falsehood. Revolutionary socialists are distinguished from reformist social democrats, not because they...