Bernstein, Eduard
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Bernstein, Eduard (b. 6 Jan. 1850, d. 18 Dec. 1932). Revisionist German socialist leader A member of the German
SPD since 1872, he became head of the party newspaper in 1881. He was the co-author of the party's Erfurt Programme, and in 1899 he published his major book on the nature of social democracy,
Die Voraussetzung des Sozialismus und die Aufgaben der Sozialdemokratie. In it, he rejected the SPD's traditional goal of social revolution, in favour of a pragmatic approach which aimed at a reform of the current capitalist system to the immediate benefit of the working classes. He was an MP 1902–6, 1912–18, and 1920–8, though in 1917–20 he had been a member of the new Independent Socialist Party (USPD). He was the major influence behind the party's transformation from the ideals of
Marxism to an acceptance of the Empire, and he endorsed the Weimar Republic from 1918.
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The Quest of Evolutionary Socialism: Eduard Bernstein and Social Democracy.
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...My reaction to this new political biography of Eduard Bernstein is that while I can admire it as a comprehensive...premise, as I believe it is demonstrably false. Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932) was a journalist, editor, and leading...
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Thorstein Veblein meets Eduard Bernstein: toward an institutionalist theory of mobilization politics.
Magazine article from: Journal of Economic Issues; 9/1/1991; ; 700+ words
; As we enter the last decade of the twentieth century, and much to the surprise of many Marxists and both leftist and conservative critics of soviet society, we find ourselves spectators to a series of events that are clearly of great historical proportions. We are witnessing the radical
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Revisionism, past and present
Magazine article from: Renewal : a Journal of Labour Politics; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...self-conscious emulation of the German Marxist Eduard Bernstein's writing at the end of the nineteenth century...revisionist demarche should take. Original revisionism Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932), was the son of a Berlin Jewish...
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Not Quite a Right Turn in Europe
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/10/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...the final goal, nothing," Eduard Bernstein, the great German social democrat...late 19th century. Ironically, Bernstein remains one of the few socialist...Marching, cautiously, under Bernstein's banner, the socialist, social...
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Gyorgy Petri. Petri Gyorgy osszegyujtott munkai I: Versek.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...jokingly, at other times in all seriousness. Take, for example, the phonetic poem-joke "Bernstein (Eduard) kikeredzkedik" (Eduard Bernstein wants to be excused) on page 504, which makes sense only to those readers who know something...
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Editorial
Magazine article from: Film International; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...1890S German Social Democrat Eduard Bernstein claimed that class polarisation...assumptions of Marxism wrong.1 Bernstein developed his argument at a time...Today, more than a century after Bernstein introduced his revisionism, decades...
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Reprogramming democratic socialism. (Rethinking Social Democracy in Western Europe)
Magazine article from: West European Politics; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...within a decade of its adoption by Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932) who not only wanted...capitalism embedded in the Programme. Bernstein was concerned to point to the...other hand the revisionists, like Bernstein, who wanted to bring the analysis...
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Loosening Labour's golden straitjacket
Magazine article from: New Statesman; 3/23/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...von Hayek, but the forgotten German revisionist Eduard Bernstein. It was Bernstein who formulated modern social democracy, a type...of neoliberalism. Not only Keynes, but also Bernstein, found himself eclipsed by Hayek and Milton Friedman...
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Papa knew best. (David Shub)(Special Issue: The Revolution That Failed)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 9/9/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...ambiguous role in the Kornilov coup of August 1917. Eduard A. Shevardnadze invited comparison with an older and...tamizdat, as a gymnasium student in Vilnius; he absorbed Eduard Bernstein's evolutionary socialism on his first trip (via Berlin...
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Wealth and worth.
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...of capitalism--the German Revisionists, such as Eduard Bernstein, or the British Fabians, such as Sidney and Beatrice...thinkers. They were creatures of their times, as were Bernstein and the Webbs. Two other omissions stand out. Lenin...
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Eduard Bernstein
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Eduard Bernstein The German socialist Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932) was a leader of the revisionist, or evolutionary, wing of the German Social Democratic party. Eduard Bernstein was born in Berlin on Jan. 6, 1850. As the family...
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Bernstein, Eduard
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
Bernstein, Eduard (1850–1932) As the leading...the German Social Democratic Party, Bernstein sought to cleanse the party's ideology...pessimism that underpinned them. For Bernstein, then, socialism represented not just...
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Marxism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...challenged from both the right (by Eduard Bernstein's revisionism), and the left...Luxemburg's spontaneism). Bernstein criticized the retention of Marxism...which took place in Berlin. But Bernstein's ideas eventually triumphed...
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Fabianism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...action. Their impact was not limited to Britain. Eduard Bernstein in Germany wrote the introduction to the German edition...Russian by Vladimir Lenin. What appealed to both Bernstein and Lenin was the Fabian call for the professional...
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Rosa Luxemburg
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...headed the revisionist wing of the SPD in opposition to its major theorist, Eduard Bernstein. She wrote articles in socialist newspapers increasingly critical of Bernstein's political and economic theories. Gradually, in a series of works published...
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