Neither parliamentary reformists nor syndicalists understood Marxism, and any revision of Marxism resembled the very modernist heresies condemned so recently by Pius X. “Until now,” wrote Plekhanov, “there were no attempts to ‘supplement’ Marx by a Thomas Aquinas. But there is nothing impossible about the fact that, despite the recent papal encyclical against the modernists, the Catholic world at one time pulled from its midst a thinker capable of this theoretical heroic act.”
Having equated revisionism with heresy, Plekhanov went on to attack Bogdanov directly in an article entitled “Militant Materialism.” In it Plekhanov excommunicated Bogdanov as a lapsed comrade, an empiriomonist who, with Labriola and Lunacharsky, had tried to smuggle syndicalism into Russia “in the guise of a weapon ‘suitable for orthodox Marxists.’ “
Plekhanov following his masters voice after his Pope denounced indifferentism
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1873/01/indifferentism.htm
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