Reformism is a bourgeois and petty-bourgeois current that emerged in the workers’ movement in the mid-19th century. The vigorous rise of the workers’ movement and the emergence of “labor aristocracy” in some relatively developed capitalist countries have provided a social basis for the prospering of reformism. Reformists advocated partial social reform without touching the capitalist system, advocated reconciliation and collaboration of classes, denied and abolished the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat, beautified the capitalist system, and covered the class essence of the capitalist states in an attempt to analyze the revolutionary will of the broad masses of the people and maintain and consolidate the capitalist system through minor reforms…
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