See also: Bernstein

Politician and Socialist theorist German, born in 1850, died in 1932, militant of SPD, Eduard Bernstein is made known by its proposal of " réviser" the Marxism by giving up its revolutionary character. He preaches on the contrary the exclusive choice of the parliamentary and governmental action, which according to him would make it possible to make disappear the Capitalisme by a series from reforms, and thus to create a company Socialiste.

Rosa Luxemburg, also theorician of the SPD, is opposed to its conclusions by a series of articles and the work Réforme or revolution ?

Eduard Bernstein is regarded as a theorist of socialism reformist (and not of the Social-démocratie to the current direction of the term).

See too

• Socialism;
• Reformism;
• political Ideas.