Political Science · Political Theory
Who wrote the book 'Evolutionary Socialism'?
AKarl Marx
BBeatrice Webb and Sidney Webb
CEduard Bernstein ✓ Correct
DFerdinand Lassalle
Correct answer: (C) Eduard Bernstein — Evolutionary Socialism was written by Eduard Bernstein, so the answer is Bernstein.
Explanation
★Evolutionary Socialism was written by Eduard Bernstein, so the answer is Bernstein.
★Bernstein was the founder of revisionism within German Social Democracy.
★He argued that capitalism was not collapsing and that socialism could come by gradual reform.
★He rejected Marx's prediction of inevitable proletarian revolution and growing misery.
★Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto, defending revolutionary change.
★The Webbs were Fabians who wrote on industrial democracy and social reform in Britain.
★Ferdinand Lassalle founded the German workers' movement and favoured state-aided cooperatives.
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