The early socialist struggles in the 1800s gave birth to “minimum demands”, which were demands that could, in theory, be accommodated in a capitalist economy. In the early 1900s, radical socialists criticized minimum demands as an excuse for inaction, and called for demands that capitalist governments could not or would not be prepared to implement. These became known as “transitional demands”, which would reveal the inability of capitalism to transform itself into a society based on fairness and meeting human needs.