The important for reformism is not to realize reforms,
but to announce them in idea, as lure

In its origins, the reformist conception has been established by Ferdinand Lassalle, contemporary to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Then, Lassalle's ideas have been a departing point for a set, with fuzzy outlines, de theoretical formulations and practical applications allying a certain dose of criticism of the capitalist system with the willingness to assure conservation of the latter as dominant system. The forces conveying these objectives always have adapted themselves to the various contexts the evolution of society has gone through. Nowadays, the labor movement is confronted with a reformism reflecting the present situation, that is, a stunted reformism, confining to be absorbed by outright bourgeois ideology.

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