Maximum programme

In Marxist praxis, a maximum programme consists of a series of demands aiming to achieve socialism. The concept of a maximum programme comes from the Erfurt Programme approved at the Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) held in 1891 in Erfurt, and later mirrored by much of the Socialist International of 1889–1916. The Erfurt Programme was composed of a maximum and a minimum programme (consisting of immediate social demands). 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. Alternatively, maximalist socialists declared that they sought to implement the maximum programme, which in their view would lead to the achievement of the socialist state.…

In Marxist praxis, a maximum programme consists of a series of demands aiming to achieve socialism. The concept of a maximum programme comes from the Erfurt Programme approved at the Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) held in 1891 in Erfurt, and later mirrored by much of the Socialist International of 1889–1916. The Erfurt Programme was composed of a maximum and a minimum programme (consisting of immediate social demands). 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. Alternatively, maximalist socialists declared that they sought to implement the maximum programme, which in their view would lead to the achievement of the socialist state. 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, , 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. ==History== ===The Erfurt Programme=== After the reformist approach that had shaped the SPD under the Gotha Program approved in 1875, the Erfurt Program marked for the party a partial return to Marxist theory and teachings, such as a complete break with the moderate pragmatism of Lassallean origin. However, the course of the programmatic debate in the pre-congress phase did not lead to in-depth discussions concerning the theses of Karl Marx.

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