Manfred Steger. The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism. Eduard Bernstein and Social Democracy.

Contents

Introduction: the nature of Bernstein’s quest

Part 1

Preparation

1 – The making of a social democrat

2 – Persecution and exile

3 – The «Revisionist Controversy»

Part 2

Vision

4 – The meaning of socialism

5 – Evolutionary socialism as «organized liberalism»: rethinking economics, state, and democracy

Part 3

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»

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