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<h4> What Is the Meaning of Revolution Today? – Spectre Journal </h4>
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<div class="pull-left"> Louis Proyect </div>
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<p>By David McNally</p>
<p style=" margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(21, 20, 21);
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text-align: start; background-color: rgb(248, 248,
249);">The decline of the idea of socialist revolution
thus goes hand in hand with a relative collapse of
insurgent, leftward-moving popular insurgencies.</p>
<p style=" margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(21, 20, 21);
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text-align: start; background-color: rgb(248, 248,
249);">This is the context for the rise of a new and
bolder social democratic reformism, particularly in
the U.S. Stimulated in part by the episodic successes
of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns of 2016
and 2020, a layer of intellectuals and activists in
and around the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
has embraced the parliamentarist legacy of German
social democratic theorist Karl Kautsky.<sup
class="modern-footnotes-footnote
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href="https://spectrejournal.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-revolution-today/void(0)"
rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">4</a></sup><span> </span>Today,
the new Kautskyism reinforces a fixation on the
electoral arena that threatens to disable sections of
the socialist left. The embrace of electoralism
underpins left practices that de-emphasize
mobilization in defense of Black lives, evade or
oppose calls to defund the police, and fail to lift a
finger on behalf of union organizing drives at Amazon.<sup
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href="https://spectrejournal.com/what-is-the-meaning-of-revolution-today/void(0)"
rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">5</a></sup><span> </span>There
is a political logic to this since, as Kautsky himself
half conceded, his was a “passive radicalism”
mistrustful of socialist efforts to<span> </span><em>build</em><span> </span>working
class insurgency.</p>
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