Reformist Marxism

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Reformist Marxism
Basic Information
Aliases	RefMarx Bernsteinism Marxist Social Democracy Evolutionary Socialism Japanese Communism Liberal Marxism Humanistic Marxism Social Socialism Classical Social Democracy Opportunism (By Leninism) 4th Generation of the Left (According to Gustavo Bueno and his followers)
Alignments	LeftUnity Culturally Left Liberals Welfarists Democratic Communists Socialists
Ideological Influences
Influenced by	Marxism Left Reformism Left-Wing Nationalism (JCP) Pacifism Radical liberalism (SPD)
Influenced	Anti-Authoritarianism Centrist Marxism Democratic Socialism Liberal Socialism Social Democracy
Ideological Information
Notable Theorists	Eduard Bernstein, 1872, German Empire Sanzō Nosaka, 1946, Japan
Character Information
Likes	Reform Marxian economics
Dislikes	Revolutions

Reformist Marxism, also called Evolutionary Socialism, Marxist Social Democracy, Classical Social Democracy, or Bernsteinism is a type of Marxism which seeks to achieve communism through the use of democratic means. Reformist Marxism is the precursor of modern Democratic Socialism and Social Democracy. Reformist Marxism today is practiced by the Japanese Communist Party.

History

Germany

Flag of Reformist Marxism

Reformist Marxism has it's 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

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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 a strong opposition to American interventionism in Japan and a focus on maintaining Japan's national sovereignty.

Doctrine

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How to Draw

To represent Reformist Marxism the polcompball community uses a variant of the Social Democracy design. With the white rose on the red background replaced with a gold rose on a red background, as to revoke communism.

1. Draw a ball
2. Fill it with red
3. Draw a golden rose in the middle
4. Add eyes and you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Red	#CD0000	205, 0, 0
	Gold	#FFD800	255, 216, 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.
• Anti-Authoritarianism - My great son who hates authoritarianism like me.
• Left-Wing Nationalism - Yes, you can show your national pride without being an expansionist militaristic prick.
• Alter-Globalization - Down with exploitation of the Global South and the Trans-Pacific Partnership!

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 backwards non-class-conscious peoples is based... but can you actually uplift and enlighten them instead of just exploiting them?

Enemies

• Luxemburgism - STOP BULLYING ME!
• Bismarckism - Got some right ideas, but banning socialists was cringe.
• Showa-era Dictatorship - A bloodthirsty merciless conqueror, and a bloody hypocrite to boot!
• Anti-Japaneseism - You can denounce Japanese imperialism without being so racist about it.
• 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 them.
• 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, your entire ideology revolves around a proleterian revolution, you're Leninism but worse!
• Dengism - Communist in name only! 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

• Evolutionary Socialism
• The rest of Bernstein's work

Wikipedia

• Eduard Bernstein
• Revisionist Marxism
• Reformist Socialism
• History of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
• Japanese Communist Party
• French Communist Party
• John McDonnell

Videos

• Japan's Lovable Communist Revolution by Step Back History

Gallery

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