Millerandism

The term Millerandism was derived from the behavior of the French socialist and later President Alexandre Millerand , who had become a minister in a left-wing cabinet in 1899 without the approval of his party. The term means the intellectual overcoming of the class barriers between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat while renouncing a revolutionary strategy. The term was used in Germany on representatives of the revisionist wing of the SPD .

In retrospect, Sigmund Rubinstein characterized Millerandism in 1921 as the "socialism of ambitious people [...] who, having risen, changed over to the crowd of political exploiters of universal suffrage."

Individual evidence

^ Gandolf Huebinger , Intellectual and Social Issues in the Empire. An overview . In: Ulrich von Alemann and others (ed.), Intellectuals and Social Democracy . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2000, ISBN 978-3-8100-2921-8 , pp. 29-42, here p. 38.
^ Sigmund Rubinstein: Romantic Socialism. An experiment on the idea of the German revolution . Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1921, p. 30.

[1] Gandolf Huebinger , Intellectual and Social Issues in the Empire. An overview . In: Ulrich von Alemann and others (ed.), Intellectuals and Social Democracy . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2000, ISBN 978-3-8100-2921-8 , pp. 29-42, here p. 38.

[2] Sigmund Rubinstein: Romantic Socialism. An experiment on the idea of the German revolution . Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1921, p. 30.