For all the hacks out there, here’s a timeline of all Australian election dates between 2012 and 2015 (via the Parliamentary Library)
TweetThe diverse attempts at revisionism were the most obvious symptom of a major crisis of direction: even at its best (Bad Godesberg and Crosland), revisionism proceeded mainly in the negative - that is, by seeking to abandon ideological baggage which appeared to have become dysfunctional. While the defenders of orthodoxy remained committed to the vision of the final goal, no grand new ideas appeared on the horizon of European socialism. It was thus ill-equipped to meet the challenge of power which opened up in the 1960s in Britain, Germany and Italy; unprepared to face the strategic implications of the revival of working-class militancy; surprised at the reawakening of Marxism among the intelligensia; disconcerted by the new radicalism expressed by feminism; and unaware of how the growth of interdependence was leading to the decline of the nation-state.
Revisionists could never understand the difference between watering down traditional socialism and establishing a new framework. Unable to achieve the latter, they remained content with the former. Over successive decades, the parties of the West European Left, socialists as well as communists, made no major conceptual advances.

