Complex sentence: Brivati writes that for Gaitskell "socialism was not an end state... but the reform of institutions and practices for the more effective realisation of preferred values" Durbin's "Politics of Democratic Socialism" (1940) was a seminal text.
Split into simpler sentences: Brivati writes that for Gaitskell "socialism was not an end state... but the reform of institutions and practices for the more effective realisation of preferred values". Evan Durbin's "Politics of Democratic Socialism" (1940) was a seminal text.