How do you define reformism?
For instance comrade Rata labelled this that and the other group reformist on the KRAS document discussion thread. And small tightly political groups are quite keen on labelling other groups than themselves reformist, seems like it is a way to differentiate people with different politics or strategies from your own.
For me, reformism means that you seek to reform capitalism and power relations instead of overthrowing them. Is this definition too simplistic?
For instance, some people are quick to say SAC in sweden is reformist because they take part in state run unemployment benefit scheme where worker gets 80% of their former income in case of unemployment. Apparently to not to be reformist you should just starve - whereas i find this kind of attitude reformist, because it makes revolutionaries look out of touch, more concerned about form than substance and plain nutters (hows that for a finely refined philosphical and political point!). Jokes aside, the point is that for some the workers material conditions matter less than for instance the outspoken goal of SAC to establish libertarian socialist society and all the practical work that they do to achieve this aim.
Small political groups of course will never be reformist because of their irrelevance due to the lack of recources to have anything but the smallest, localised impact in the class struggle. These groups should not be a model for non-reformist action, because it is like comparing apples and oranges (or watermelons with a fucking tiny pea more like).
So, how do you define which groups are reformist and which are not?
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well i think revolutionaries recognise that reforms are only granted to stave off revolution, but can be accepted tactically.
reformists see reforms as the be-all-and-end-all.
but yeah small tightly-knit groups do have a tendency to label the first category 'reformist' too, wrongly imho, simply for accepting certain reforms.