University of Connecticut Libraries Eduard Bernstein EVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM Introduction by Sidney Hook With this book Eduard Bernstein takes his place among the major political theoreticians of modern times. As a marxist, he spoke out fearlessly for a movement that is at once democratic and evolutionary rather than autocratic and revolutionary. The questions he raised are still being fought out among labor movements and social demo- cratic parties around the world. They involve major issues of eco- nomic development.
Perhaps the most original and independent socialist thinker, Bernstein [1850-1932] spent twenty years in exile in London, in intimate contact with Marx and Engels. Returning to Germany in 1901, he served intermittently in the Reichstag, attaining ministerial rank after 1918. The moderate, practical outlook of modern Labor is due largely to his influence.
"Eduard Bernstein...pointed out more clearly than any one before him the apparent non-fulfilment of various marxist prophesies."
— SIR ISAIAH BERLIN "The present book has not only had its history, it has also in some way made a little history. Opponents of socialism declared it to be the most crushing testimony of the unsoundness of the socialist theory...Unable to believe in finalities at all, I cannot believe in a final aim of socialism. But I strongly believe...in the march forward of the working classes to a real democracy." — eduard Bernstein SCHOCKEN BOOKS 67 Park Avenue J^k New York City 1 6 Cover design by Janet Halverson