Quest for Evolutionary Socialism - Eduard Bernstein and Social Democracy

Klappentext The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism studies the interaction between social democratic politics and socialist ideals. Zusammenfassung The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism is both a biography of Eduard Bernstein and a study of the interaction between European social democratic politics and socialist political ideals. Professor Steger interprets Bernstein's 'Evolutionary Socialism' as a quest for liberty and justice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: the nature of Bernstein's quest; Part I. Preparation: 1. The making of a social democrat; 2. Persecution and exile; 3. The 'Revisionist Controversy'; Part II. Vision: 4. The meaning of socialism; 5. Evolutionary socialism as 'organized liberalism': rethinking economics, state and democracy; Part III. Disappointment: 6. Facing the critics; 7. The revisionist debate extended; 8. The dawn of a new era; 9. Bernstein's final battle: confronting socialist instrumentalism; Epilogue: evolutionary socialism at the 'end of socialism'; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Manfred B. Steger, Manfred B. (Illinois State University) Steger
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.1997
• EAN: 9780521582001
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58200-1
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies