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“I rejoice that I could once think better of the world's improvability than it deserved. It is a mistake into which men seldom fall twice, in a lifetime; or, if so, the rarer and higher is the nature that can magnanimously persist in error.”

Optimism Pessimism Nihilism Disillusionment Reformism

Book:The Blithedale Romance

Source: The Blithedale Romance

“Look inside yourself and recognize that change starts with you. It starts with me. It starts with all of us.”

Inspirational Common Sense Reformism

Author:Jared Bush

“whoever wants Communism without the social revolution and without proletarian dictatorship, whoever rejects the strategy of the Communists, - his sympathy with Communism may be the expression of dissatisfaction with the existing order, but it can be nothing more.”

Liberalism Democrats Social Democracy Revisionism Gradualism Reformism Parliamentary Cretinism Bourgeois Ideology

Book:Dialectical Materialism and Communism

Source: Dialectical Materialism and Communism

“These days even mere attempts to improve capitalism are often called ‘Socialism,’ while in reality they are only reforms.”

Capitalism Socialism Reforms Reformism

Book:The ABC of Anarchism

Source: The ABC of Anarchism

“Labourism was to be the bete noire of the Party, hated as much as the capitalist system itself. Its growth was to lead to the hardening of Party attitudes almost to the point where even the wish to improve everyday conditions was considered iniquitous. The resentment was heated by the fact that many of the rising Labour leaders had been fellow members of the Social Democratic Federation and once professed the revolution.No words were strong enough for the Party's contempt. In the the Socialist Standard they were 'fakirs', a strong allusion to self-seeking piety, and on the platforms 'Labour bleeders',...”

Revolution Labour Party Spgb Reformism

Author:Robert Barltrop

“Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitterness into a sea of socialist sweetness, by progressively pouring into it bottles of social reformist lemonade, presents an idea that is merely more insipid but no less phantastic.”

Rosa Luxemburg Reformism German Social Democracy Reform Or Revolution

Book:Reform or Revolution

Source: Reform or Revolution

“Furthermore, the managerial ethos of parliamentary reformism is in direct tension with important values associated with the dialogue that attends our system of checks and balances. The term "parliamentary reform" should not be allowed to cloud the fact that the critics advance a highly pro-executive position that would seek a strong government primarily by undercutting the independence of Congress.”

Separation Of Powers Constitutional Law Checks And Balances 1993 Reformism Parliamentarism

Book:The Limits of the Parliamentary Critique of the Separation of Powers

Source: The Limits of the Parliamentary Critique of the Separation of Powers