Bernstein: The Preconditions of Socialism

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A new translation of Bernstein's classic defence of democratic socialism. Zusammenfassung A 1993 translation of Bernstein's famous and influential work. It will provide students with an accurate and unabridged edition of the classic defence of democratic socialism and the first significant critique of revolutionary Marxism from within the socialist movement. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Eduard Bernstein
• Assisted by: Raymond Geuss (Editor), Henry Tudor (Editor), Tudor Henry (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.1993
• EAN: 9780521398084
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39808-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought; Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, Europe, HISTORY / Social History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies