I was inspired by Rosa's thread in Workers' Actions on workers' activity in China and by one of the key points of Lars Lih's Lenin Rediscovered regarding the original "social democracy":

Originally posted by Me
Remember, the original idea behind "social democracy" was the merger of scientific socialism (then in its "Marxist" form) and the workers' movement!
This premise implies the separate origins of the socialist movement and the workers' movement, and since I read the review above several months ago, this caused me to ask my old question regarding the startling class demographics of neo-fascist parties in a Learning thread:

Is neo-fascism now a faux "workers' movement"?

I'd like to revise that question slightly (different places for quotation marks): Is neo-fascism now a "faux" workers' movement (ie, genuine but self-defeating)?

What about, for another example (two links), the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?



Given the further implications posed by the questions above, I'd like to ask overall: what is a workers' movement?



[On a more subtle note, I also know the difference between classical "social democracy"/"proletocracy"/"proletarism" and mere united/popular fronts.]