Bernstein's Concept Of Socialism

Bernstein(1850-1932)was the first one to amend the Marxist,is the German society.Well-known theorists and practice of the Democratic Party activist. Bernstein's theory and practice of life activities are mainly experienced three stages: as a bourgeois democrat, as a Marxist, as a revisionist. Bernstein live in an era of relative peace and development in the capitalist era, although the Social Democrats, in theory, all countries adhere to the traditional view of socialist revolution, but in practice, mainly engaged in the legitimate struggle of the parliamentary and trade union work, and increasingly satisfied the legitimate struggle of their daily achievements, ignoring the ultimate goal of achieving socialism.This is mainly due to the one hand, in principle, rejected the working class as equals among the inclusion in the state and society, they continue to suffer economic exploitation and political and social oppression. On the other hand since the age of 80 since the 19th century, the working class by increasing economic improvement in their status in law and in practice have shown limited improvement trend. Bernstein would like to use the theory to adapt to practical ways to eliminate a mismatch between theory and practice, resulting from the Marxist position, the amendment of Marxism, forming their own concept of socialism. Therefore, this article will adhere to the method of historical materialism and dialectical materialism, by Bernstein's life and historical background, its development and sources of ideas to make a comb, in order to Bernstein in the right to criticize the socialist outlook, while,also made an objective and fair assessment. We can see that Bernstein's concept of socialism is mainly manifested in his essence of socialism, the realization of the socialist road of socialist democracy and socialist countries, prospects for the future understanding. Bernstein's socialist views were published by order of Luxembourg, represented by left-wing critique of the Social Democratic Party, in particular, is to Bernstein of the "ultimate purpose" view as a betrayal of Marxism. Lenin also the viewpoint Bernstein fierce criticism, pointing out that Byrne Shi Tan Si would like the essence of "adzuki bean soup to a bowl sold his right of primogeniture."At the time Bernstein amendment of Marxism in order to get rid of the Social Democratic Party at that time the contradiction between theory and practice, and his request is the real aspirations of the working class at that time, his intention is not deviated from Marxism. However, Bernstein does not fully understand Marxism and revisionism in practice on the one hand to meet its spontaneous class consciousness of the working class the other hand, the Social Democratic Party rose to fight the fight strategy of principle, although some of the working class and win a number of benefits, but you can not change the fundamental status of the proletariat throughout the world. Today, we have to learn from Bernstein thought amendment to the experiences and lessons learned, the correct understanding of Marxism.