Western Civilization II / Unit 11 WC2 1031 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The SPD Legalized, 1890: Kautsky Against Bernstein
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The idea
The new Kaiser dismissed Bismarck and the SPD was legal from eighteen ninety. Its program was Marxist, awaiting capitalism's collapse, while it worked for suffrage and welfare. Bernstein argued gradual improvement was the goal; Kautsky held to revolution. Doctrine rejected revisionism; practice followed it.
In practice
A revolutionary waiting game, the anchor says.
Where people slip
Kautsky and Bernstein are anchor-only; the Erfurt program is unnamed.
Your place on the trail
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