The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism : Eduard Bernstein and Social Democracy (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: the nature of Bernstein's quest; Part I. Preparation: 1. The making of a social democrat; 2. Persecution and exile; 3. The 'Revisionist Controversy'; Part II. Vision: 4. The meaning of socialism; 5. Evolutionary socialism as 'organized liberalism': rethinking economics, state and democracy; Part III. 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'; Bibliography; Index.