Socialist Progressives

change the system at all. She was a revolutionary all the way. She just saw reforms as a side issue that did a couple of things. 1) Reforms do help the proletariat in their daily lives, so that's a worthwhile endeavor in itself. But I think that the most important thing that Rosa thought fighting for reforms does is to put the communist in a leadership role FOR the proletariat on issues that affect them directly which, along with education, increases the consciousness of the workers who the communist fights with for these reforms. And I guess also fighting for reforms would lead to experience fighting the system in general, experience that would held down the line in a true revolutionary situation.

That's my take anyway, FWIW.