On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 12:04 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:

> 
> All workers, not only the most liberal and better educated, have an equal need
> to go beyond reformism. However, all workers have always been reformists
> until the system has exhausted its capacity for reform.

All of us have more or less capitalist ideology in our political outlook. How 
you judge "equal need" of different strata to overcome it is a Talmudic 
exercise.

And it is outright false that all workers are reformists until capitalism 
exhausts its capacity for reform. There have been and there are communist 
parties, with plenty of working-class members, during times when class struggle 
could wring reforms from the capitalists. Gandall's incorrect statement of fact 
is just his Menshevik disdain for agitating, educating, and organizing for 
revolution during the reform era so that a core is ready when an opening to 
revolution arrives.


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