Editorial

From: Film International | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Lindvall, Daniel | Copyright information

IN THE MID-1890S German Social Democrat Eduard Bernstein claimed that class polarisation was soon to become a thing of the past. With the advance of modernity "the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie" were "yielding step by step to democratic institutions" and common interests between classes were already replacing earlier antagonism, proving the basic assumptions of Marxism wrong.1 Bernstein developed his argument at a time when his party was coming out of illegality and was about to ta...

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