This is the first complete new translation of Eduard Bernstein's (1850-1932) famous and influential work. It will provide students with an accurate and unabridged edition of the classic defense of democratic socialism and the first significant critique of revolutionary Marxism from within the socialist movement. First published in 1899, at the height of the Revisionist Debate, it argued that capitalism was not heading for the major crisis predicted by Marx, and that socialism could be achieved by piecemeal reform within a democratic constitutional framework. Bernstein's work is the focal point of one of the most important political debates of modern times, and crucial for the light it casts on "the crisis of Communism."
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Original Language: German
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I feel asleep while reading it so I don't know what it was about exactly except that the author was senile once and believed Socialism was an innate feeling in war tribes from the Sahara who sipped camel oil.
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Today, German Social Democracy accepts as the theoretical basis of its activity the social doctrine which Marx and Engels worked out and called scientific socialism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
capitalist magnates, revisionist debate, reactionary mass, labour value, occupational statistics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Social Democratic, Miss Luxemburg, Die Neue Zeit, The Class Struggles, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Great Britain, The Communist Manifesto, Social Democrats, Stuttgart Conference, United States, Communist League, Factory Act, Kiaochow Bay, Paris Commune, The Civil War, The Poverty of Philosophy, Adam Smith, Karl Kautsky, Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire New!
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Today, German Social Democracy accepts as the theoretical basis of its activity the social doctrine which Marx and Engels worked out and called scientific socialism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
capitalist magnates, revisionist debate, reactionary mass, labour value, occupational statistics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Social Democratic, Miss Luxemburg, Die Neue Zeit, The Class Struggles, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Great Britain, The Communist Manifesto, Social Democrats, Stuttgart Conference, United States, Communist League, Factory Act, Kiaochow Bay, Paris Commune, The Civil War, The Poverty of Philosophy, Adam Smith, Karl Kautsky, Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire New!
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- The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Blaisdell on 7 pages
- The Communist Manifesto (Signet Classics) by Karl Marx on 6 pages
- Selected Philosophical Works ( Volume 2 ) by Georgi Plekhanov on 5 pages
- Poverty of Philosophy (Great Books in Philosophy) by Karl Marx on 5 pages
- Civil War in France by Karl Marx on 4 pages
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