Examples of using Centrists in English and their translations into German
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It is the extreme right that has benefited most from the centrists' failure.
The Italian Socialist Party, for example, had centrists and even some thorough-going reformists in its leadership.
Most centrists considered it the best option to urge migrants to learn German so that they can better assimilate.
Therefore, the RCIT denounces those reformists and centrists who support, in one way or another, the perpetuation of national oppression of migrants.
In this case, however, the victory of the extremist Hamas may strengthen not the extremists of Likud, but, surprisingly,the more moderate centrists of Kadima.
Elections to the National Assembly: conservative parties 44, national liberals 22,other liberals 75, centrists 91, social democrats 163, independent social democrats 22, others 4 seats.
It is symptomatic for the revisionists and centrists that they tried for a long time to kill this Leninist doctrine by silence. At least, the revisionists and neo-revisionists have put it into the background.
In practical politics, sectarians unite with opportunists, particularly with centrists, every time in the struggle against Marxism.
After François Bayrou's failure in the Congress of the Social Democrats(CDS), Jacques Delors became aware that it would be impossible tocreate a new majority by pulling the socialists and the centrists together.
Without revolutionary leadership of the Soviets, they will be led by reformists, bourgeois forces,populists and centrists who will subordinate the working class to the power of the capitalist class.
This put us in sharp opposition to most centrists who refused to call for the defense of Afghanistan claiming that one could not support a country led by radical Islamists like the Taliban.
Because a test of the Bolsheviks by their deeds would have shown that the Bolsheviks are the only revolutionary organization in theworld which has completely smashed the opportunists and centrists and driven them out of the Party.
Contrary to the illusions of the left social democrats, Stalinist and various centrists(e.g., CWI, IMT), the socialist transformation cannot take place via parliamentary elections or in a gradual, peaceful way.
In short, the Afghanistan war and the following occupation drew a sharp class line between consistentMarxists who take an unambiguous anti-imperialist stand and the centrists who cover their adaption to imperialism by social-pacifist phrases.
Consequently, contrary to the mistaken beliefs of reformists, populists and centrists, the misery of humanity caused by crisis-ridden capitalism cannot be overcome by reforms Keynesian economic policy,“left-wing government”, etc.
A much more reactionary conclusion, which resulted from a wrong understanding of the questions of the labor aristocracy and the character of the migrant's oppression,was the shameful support of many British left-reformists and centrists- like the Stalinist CPB, the CWI, the IMT etc.
The masses don't ever stay for very long in this transitional stage:temporarily they rally to the centrists, then they go on and join the communists or go back to the reformists- unless they lapse into indifference.' 27.
Only politically blind(a la centrists like the CWI), conscious cheaters from the ranks of liberal intellectuals or reformist bureaucrats can tell the working class, that the path to liberation by peaceful means is possible.
And so, from 1970 to 2000, a broad coalition of conservatives(who wanted tosee the government stop encouraging immorality), centrists(who wanted government money spent effectively), and leftists(who wanted poverty alleviated) removed the“notches” from the social-insurance system.
But the question arises: Could the Russian Bolsheviks bring about a split with their opportunists and Centrist conciliators long before the imperialist war(1904-12) without at the same time pursuing a line directed towards a rupture, towards a split with the opportunists and Centrists of the Second International?
It was one of determinedly fighting the Centrists, of fighting for a split with the Rights(especially after the outbreak of the imperialist war) and of organising a new, revolutionary International consisting of genuinely Left, genuinely proletarian elements.
Only if there are guarantees that the workers' government will really struggle against the bourgeoisie in the sense mentioned'-if social democrats and centrists could do that(‘arm the workers… break the resistance of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie'), they would cease to be reformists.
We therefore condemn those British centrists who supported the chauvinist“British Jobs for British Workers” strike in 2009, who denounced the August Uprising in 2011, and who oppose the call for“Open Border for Migrants” like the CWI and the IMT.
Madam President, to close our debate on the Dublin Summit, the Europe of Nations Group,faced with the consensus motion from the socialists and centrists, tabled a motion for a resolution demanding a radical reorientation of the Intergovernmental Conference.
Like all those whom Lenin and Trotsky labelled centrists because they vacillate between revolutionary rhetoric and reformist practice, the IST habitually sacrifices its purported revolutionary views whenever it sees an opportunity to cozy up to reformist union and political leaders.
Trotsky once drew the following line between Bolshevism and centrism which today is very relevant for the characterization of the LFI:while the former supports the oppressed in their struggle, the centrists consider this as“adventurist” and prefer to limit themselves to defend the oppressed against bourgeois repression.
These movements oncemore demonstrate the utter nonsense of the thesis of centrists like Grant/Woods and the organizations they built(CWI, IMT), that when the masses enter the field of class struggle, they supposedly"always" and"inevitably" first turn to the traditional mass parties and become active within these.
In a situation of war, paradoxically, Ukrainiansdid not vote for the radicals but, overwhelmingly, for moderate centrists, tough enough vis-a-vis Russian aggression but reconciliatory vis-a-vis domestic divides and possible contradictions.
But as the IMT(and most other centrists) refute the Leninist conception of labor aristocracy and their relative privileges paid from the super-profits of the imperialist monopolies and states as the material basis for their backward consciousness, so do these centrists ignore the ideological consequences of the material factors of an imperialist settler state on the consciousness of its privileged population.
Social Democrats, Stalinists, trade union bureaucracies, petty-bourgeois democrats and centrists Usually they are either highly paid servants of the ruling class, who are always willing to sell out their rank and file basis, or they are well-meaning dreamers who have no programme, no strategy and no plan and who do not understand the necessity of obtaining such an agenda.