80 years have passed since the formation of the first Workers ' (Social Democratic) party in Romania. The path she took was not easy and not always straight. The documents published in socialist Romania 1 show the complexity of the situation in the party, the depth of contradictions that existed between the left current and the reformists, the intensity of the struggle, and the difficulties that the revolutionary forces had to overcome. By the time the party was founded, the working class had become a major factor in the life of the country. The introduction of Romania to the world market was accompanied by all the usual phenomena for capitalist civilization. Thousands of artisans, apprentices and apprentices were knocked out of their usual conditions of existence and gradually absorbed into factories, factories, mines, went to the construction of railways. Many of them began to understand the illusory nature of calculations for turning into" independent " hostesses. Although the burden of petty-bourgeois ideas had not yet been overcome, the process of class education of the proletariat could not be stopped. At the turn of two centuries, the proletariat was already a considerable force: 37,000 people were employed in manufacturing enterprises alone, which were considered large by the conditions of that time, and several tens of thousands more worked on railways, oil fields, and water transport. It was the vanguard of the proletarian army. At the beginning of the twentieth century, however, factory workers were still a minority of the 130,000 employed in industry and transport .2 The craftsman was still a typical figure of Romanian industry. But there was also a certain concentration of production. The 1980s of the 19th century were marked by spontaneous strikes that were no longer similar to the previous ones. At the same time, the revolutionary circles, paying tribute to Lassallianism, Proudhonism and narodism in the 70s of the XIX century, stopped looking for any ... Read more