Most of the Socialist intellectuals of Greece sided with Eleftherios Venizelos' attempt to modernize the urban landscape. The alignment of the Socialist intellectuals with Venizelism must be construed as participation in the establishment of new social relations and a modern state.

As Rena Stavridi-Patrikiou observes, these Socialist intellectuals adopted the view, already widely disseminated in the Europe of the 1910s, that the Socialist transformation of society necessarily presupposes the stages of capitalism, industrialization and urban dominance. Georgios Skliros, a leading figure in the Greek Socialist bloc, in 1907 published the work To Koinoniko mas Zitima (Our Social Issue), the first Marxist intrepretation of Greek history. It demanded that the state adopt liberal republican principles of modernization as a precondition for the materialization of its irredentist visions, which he shared, and thus he legalized the alignment of the Socialists with Venizelism. Educational demoticism was the major ideological bridge between the two camps.

To sum up, the conditions that prevailed in the period 1917-20 were considered by Socialist intellectuals as appropriate for the promotion of their reforming visions through their cooperation with a progressive (in their view) bourgeois party.