Clarification (2023)

From the November 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard

In the article ‘Best Regards, but Miles Apart’ last month the breakup of the First International (International Workingmen’s Association) in the mid-1870s was not about maximalism versus minimalism/reformism even if some of those tensions were there in embryo, tensions which rose to the surface much more clearly and starkly during the Second International period (1889-1916).