Eduard Bernstein
Eduard Bernstein (German: [ˈeːduaʁt ˈbɛʁnʃtaɪn]; 6 January 1850 – 18 December 1932) was a German social democratic Marxist theorist and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Bernstein had held close association to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, but he began to identify what he believed to be errors in Marxist thinking and began to criticize views held by Marxism when he investigated and challenged the Marxist materialist theory of history. He rejected significant parts of Marxist theory that were based upon Hegelian metaphysics and rejected the Hegelian perspective of an immanent economic necessity to socialism.
Eduard Bernstein | |
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| Member of the Reichstag from Brandenburg | |
| In office 7 June 1920 – 20 May 1928 | |
| Constituency | Potsdam (Teltow-Beeskow-Charlottenburg) |
| Member of the Imperial Reichstag from Silesia | |
| In office 13 January 1912 – 10 November 1918 | |
| Preceded by | Otto Pfundtner |
| Succeeded by | Reichstag dissolution |
| Constituency | Breslau-West |
| In office 31 October 1901 – 25 January 1907 | |
| Preceded by | Bruno Schönlank |
| Succeeded by | Otto Pfundtner |
| Constituency | Breslau-West |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 January 1850 Schöneberg, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Died | 18 December 1932 (aged 82) Berlin, Free State of Prussia, German Reich |
| Political party | SDAP (1872–1875) SPD (1875–1917) USPD (1917–1919) SPD (1918–1932) |
Philosophy career | |
| Era | Modern philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Socialism |
Main interests | Politics, economy, sociology |
Notable ideas | Social democracy Revisionism |
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