Maximum programme
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In Marxist practice, a maximum programme consists of a series of demands aiming to achieve socialism.[1] The concept of a maximum programme comes from the 1891 Erfurt Programme of the German SPD,[1][2] later mirrored by much of the Socialist International of 1889–1916. The maximalist line is contrasted with a minimum programme of immediate social demands.[3] In the short term, Marxist parties were to pursue only the minimum programme of achievable demands, which would improve the lives of workers until the inevitable collapse of capitalism. "Minimalist" groups believed that the achievement of a minimum programme would enable them to become mass parties and pursue the maximum programme.
The Communist International (Comintern) of 1919–1943 initially developed the alternative idea of transitional slogans, seeing the minimum/maximum division as leaving social democratic parties always campaigning only for their minimum programme and not clearly planning a route to achieve their maximum programme,[4][5] though the eventual programme of the 1928 6th World Congress of the Comintern was more in line with a maximum programme than with transitional slogans.
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[edit]- ^ a b Forti, Steven. "Parole in storia: MASSIMALISMO" [Words in history: MAXIMALISM]. Diacronie: Studi di Storia Contemporanea (in Italian). ISSN 2038-0925.
- ^ Social Democratic Party of Germany (1891). The Erfurt Program – via Marxists Internet Archive.
- ^ Lenin, V. I. (1977) [1910]. Remarks on an Article About Maximalism – via Marxists Internet Archive.
- ^ Bordiga, Amadeo (7 October 1922). "The Significance of the Socialist Split in Italy". International Press Correspondence. Vol. 2, no. 90. pp. 684–686 – via Marxists Internet Archive.
- ^ Humbert-Droz, Jules (February 1921). "Livorno! La victoire de Turati en Italie" [Livorno! Turati's victory in Italy]. Le Phare (in French). II (17). Geneva: 277–283.