Classical Social Democracy

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Classical Social Democracy
"This social transformation means the liberation, not only of the proletariat, but of the whole human race. Only the working-class, however, can bring it about."
Basic Information
Aliases	Social Democracy Marxism Socialism Proletarian movement(by itself)
Alignment(s)	LeftUnity AuthLeft (some theorists) Culturally Left (some theorists) Socialists Communists Democratic
Ideological Information
Influenced by:	Marxism Lassalleanism
Influenced	Leninism Council Communism Social Democracy Trotskyism Liberal Socialism Marxism-Leninism Bundism Machajskism National Bolshevism
Notable people	Classical Social Democracy Karl Marx (1818-1883) Germany Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) Germany Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826-1900) Germany Paul Lafargue (1841-1911) Spanish Cuba Ferdinand Lassalle (1825-1864) Germany Orthodox/Centrist Social Democrats Karl Kautsky (1854-1938) Czechia Georgi Plekhanov (1856-1918) Russia James Connolly (1868-1916) Ireland Belfort Bax (1854-1925) UK Revisionist Social Democracy: Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932) Germany Otto Bauer (1881-1938) Austria Luxemburgist Left Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) Germany Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919) Germany Bremen Left: Antonie Pannekoek (1873-1960) The Netherlands Herman Gorter (1873-1960) The Netherlands Karl Radek (1885-1939) Ukraine
Variations
School of Thought	Reformism/Revisionism Kautskyism Marxism Left-Reformism Radicalism Imperialism Lassalleanism Kautskyism: Anti-Imperialism Revolutionary-Parliamentarianism Marxism Lassalleanism Left-Reformism(after 1912) Luxemburgist Left: Party equals class analysis Anti-Imperialism Anti-Nationalism Marxism Revolutionary Marxism Lassalleanism Bremen Left: Anti-Parliamentarianism(later on) Anti-Economism/Theory of the economic collapse of Capitalism Anti-Reformism Anti-Imperialism Anti-Nationalism Marxism General Monopoly Capital School(in regards to analysis of monopoly capitalism) Revolutionary Marxism Dictatorship of the Councils
Character Information
Likes	The Proletariat Revolutionary organisations
Dislikes	State socialism Blanquism Anarchism Peasants Russians
Song	L'Internationale

Classical Social Democracy is a movement that has its roots in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, with most of the theories of it ranging from Marxian to even reformist ones. In spite of this, social democrats are united in believing in the following three ideas, belief in itself being the representative of all non-capitalist classes, belief in the ultimate victory of socialism no matter what or which measure and the belief in the formation of an independent organization of the working class.

Schools of Thought/Tendencies

Bremen Left

Bremen Leftists, or Bremenists are a tendency within the Social Democratic Party of Germany that emphasises on the revolutionary role of direct action. Rejecting Kautsky's and Luxemburg's ideas that capitalism will collapse through economic means, the Bremenists advocate for a focus on mass action in working-class organisations and rejection of entryism and "taking over the state". The Bremenists would instead advocate for the abolishment of the state and the creation of a proletarian one. Alongside that, they would place special emphasis in the idea that the basis of reformism is the labour aristocracy and the rejection of national liberation.