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On 5/25/15 9:29 AM, Daniel Lindvall via Marxism wrote:
Firstly, surely objective outcome is an important point in this discussion? Secondly, though there have been genuine reform socialists in the social democratic movement up until the 1980s or so, the idea of the handshake between capital and workers and the de-mobilization of the rank and file in favour of building a human-faced capitalist society, jointly administered by social democratic bureaucrats and representatives of capital, has been the ideology of the majority of the leading social democrats.
I should mention that my next post will entail a look at the Stockholm School of Economics that was founded with Wallenberg money and inspired by the theories of one Knut Wicksell, who taught at Uppsala. You've probably heard of Gunnar Myrdal and Dag Hammarskjold, who did teach at the Stockholm school. Their ideas were a conscious break with Marxism. Wicksell in particular was influenced by Böhm-Bawerk, who was one of the first bourgeois economists to attempt to disprove Marx's labor theory of value on the basis of marginalism. It should be mentioned that Wicksell was embraced by both the Swedish social democratic think-tank at Stockholm as well as by Mises and company. There's lots more about the peculiarities of a Second International party that broke with the theoretical consensus of sister parties that still embraced Marxism--at least in theory.
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