вЂњThe manufacturing capitalists form the Chartist opposition. Similar historical contortions have been made regarding the Chartists and the 1945 General Election, Gollan and company have conveniently forgotten the Chartist involvement failed.Д®ngels wrote of the Charter itself, вЂњas regards the workers it must be stated, to begin with, that no separate working class party has existed in England since the downfall of the Chartist Party in the 50вЂ™s.Nor could it have been otherwise.In a country where the ruling classes have set themselves the task of carrying out, parallel with other concessions, one point of the Chartists programme, the Peoples Charter, after another.вЂќ вЂњThe English ElectionsвЂќ published in Der Volkstaat, March 4, 1874).

It would appear that the revisionists, going one better than contemporary bourgeois historians are travelling back to Good Queen VictoriaвЂ™s days. Many modern bourgeois historians would be amazed to hear that CromwellвЂ™s Parliaments were a means whereby вЂњthe British people expressed their aspirationsвЂќ, although bourgeois historians of last century, at the height of British capitalism, like Macaulay, were quite convinced that the bourgeoisie were the people and that parliament therefore was a popular tribute. Through it the British people have expressed their aspirations for social advance for centuries (English Revolution 1640 Chartism 1840 General Election 1945), parliament could play a key role in the development of socialism in Britain. Let us take a conception of central importance to the parliamentary road put forward in the Communist Party Syllabus for New Members, Our Aim is Socialism, in 1962. вЂњParliament is rooted in British HistoryвЂќ? It is topical, and one contribution Marxists can make to the forthcoming General Election, for an analysis to be made of views of revisionists of electioneering in the light of the facts of the British electoral system. But in Britain Gollan and company have evolved their own special variety of nonsense and in fact they claim (and rightly so) to being the pioneers of the вЂњparliamentary RoadвЂќ. These are important contributions to the exposure of revisionists. Experience has been pointed at again and again in showing the impossibility of achieving working class political power via a parliament. In the past year or more a large amount has been written on the sheer idiocy of вЂњparliamentarismвЂќ as a prospective revolutionary method, by the C.P.C. Please credit the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line as your source, include the url to this work, and note any of the transcribers, editors & proofreaders above. You can freely copy, distribute and display this work as well as make derivative and commercial works. Transcription, Editing and Markup: Sam Richards and Paul SabaД¬opyright: This work is in the Public Domain under the Creative Commons Common Deed.

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