Evolutionary Socialism
Author: first_name: Eduard
last_name: Bernstein
Language: English
Year: 1909

Contains a challenge to the rigid Marxist orthodoxy that revolution is required in order achieve a centrally planned society.  Bernstein believed in working from within a capitalist system in "revisionist", that is, evolutionary steps toward socialism.  By gradually evolving in consistent legislative reforms, socialism could be made to become inevitable.  Doing this would not only avoid the violence seen in earlier attempts to establish communism, but it would (Bernstein believed) endear the vot