The central thing I learned was that reformism was a rational strategy for workers. It was in the interest of workers to support capitalist democracy. An electoral victory of pure workers' parties was not historically feasible, because the assumption that manual workers in industry and transportation would one day become the overwhelming majority of the population in industrializing countries was mistaken.


interview by Gerardo Munck on February 24, 2003, published in Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics edited by Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder


The central thing I learned was that reformism was a rational strategy for workers. It was in the interest of workers to support capitalist...

The central thing I learned was that reformism was a rational strategy for workers. It was in the interest of workers to support capitalist...

The central thing I learned was that reformism was a rational strategy for workers. It was in the interest of workers to support capitalist...

The central thing I learned was that reformism was a rational strategy for workers. It was in the interest of workers to support capitalist...