Eduard BernsteinBernstein
The Preconditions of Socialism
Herausgeber: Tudor, Henry
Eduard Bernstein (1850 - 1932) was a German social democratic Marxist theorist and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Bernstein had held close association to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, but he began to identify what he believed to be errors in Marxist thinking and began to criticize views held by Marxism when he investigated and challenged the Marxist materialist theory of history. He rejected significant parts of Marxist theory that were based upon Hegelian metaphysics and rejected the Hegelian perspective of an immanent economic necessity to socialism.
Editor's notes
Introduction
Principal events in Bernstein's life
Bibliographical note
Foreword
1. The basic tenets of Marxist socialism
2. Marxism and the Hegelian dialectic
3. The economic development of modern society
4. The tasks and the opportunities of social democracy
Conclusion
The final goal and the movement.
