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Can Marxism and Social Democracy ever be reconciled? Following the Russian Revolution of 1905, the second International, the International organisation of socialist parties which included the two great democratic socialist parties of Europe (which are the Labour party and the SPD, the Australian Labour party, the Italian PSI and the French PSF) was split between revolutionaries and the gradualists. The revolutionaries were referred to a group called 'communists' as the gradualists began to support a doctrine known as social democracy. Social democracy as a term is older than Marx himself and was originally used to summarise the differentiation between the objectives of socialism and liberal democracy. Social democracy takes the concept of equality further through applying to diverse areas of society which commits itself to means of production of both common ownership and a classless society therefore correspond to Marxist aims. Social democracy is associated with orthodox Marxism and was planned to emphasise...

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