Eduard Bernstein
German politician and theorist (1850–1932)
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German socialist who spent decades arguing Marx got the revolution part wrong—advocating for gradual parliamentary reform instead. His revisionism shaped modern social democracy, whether you think that's a feature or a bug.
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Eduard Bernstein was a German social democratic politician and socialist theorist. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Bernstein is best known for his reformist challenge to Marxism known as evolutionary socialism or revisionism, in which he questioned the revolutionary predictions of Karl Marx and advocated for a gradual, parliamentary path to socialism. His political and theoretical work played a significant role in the development of social democracy and democratic socialism.
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