Session 5

Session 5. Thursday, February 6. Reform or Revolution: Bernstein, Luxemburg, Lenin and the Erfurt Program Arato.

Readings: Kautsky The Class Struggle (IV); Luxemburg “Social Reform or Revolution” , Bernstein Evolutionary Socialism (I, II, III), Erfurt Program 1891 - https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/1891/erfurt-program.htm

Lenin: “Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution” (3-6; 9and 10); and “Marxism and Revisionism”

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/apr/03.htm