Evolutionary Socialism: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Evolutionary Socialism, credited to Eduard Bernstein, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Evolutionary Socialism by Eduard Bernstein. (Translated by Edith C. Harvey.) Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. 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 voting populace toward embracing a socialist future. - Summary by progressingamerica

Recording facts

• Recording title: Evolutionary Socialism
• Author credits: Eduard Bernstein
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 7:30:36

Catalogue topics

• socialism
• evolution
• reform
• marxism
• revisionism
• reformism

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 20:22
2. 01 - Section 1: The Fundamental Doctrines of Marxist Socialism: The Scientific Elements of Marxism — 8:18
3. 02 - Section 1: The Fundamental Doctrines of Marxist Socialism: The Materialist Interpretation of History and Historic Necessity — 22:05
4. 03 - Section 1: The Fundamental Doctrines of Marxist Socialism: The Marxist Doctrine of Class War and of the Evolution of Capital — 19:52
5. 04 - Section 2: The Economic Development of Modern Society: On the Meaning of the Marxist Theory of Value — 20:13
6. 05 - Section 2: The Economic Development of Modern Society: The Distribution of Wealth in the Modern Community — 33:36
7. 06 - Section 2: The Economic Development of Modern Society: The Classes of Enterprises in the Production and Distribution of Wealth — 47:40
8. 07 - Section 2: The Economic Development of Modern Society: Crises and Possibilities of Adjustment in Modern Economy — 51:48
9. 08 - Section 3: The Tasks and Possibilities of Social Democracy: The Political and Economic Preliminary Conditions of Socialism — 26:09
10. 09 - Section 3: The Tasks and Possibilities of Social Democracy: The Economic Capacities of Co-operative Associations — 41:56
11. 10 - Section 3: The Tasks and Possibilities of Social Democracy: Democracy and Socialism — 49:38
12. 11 - Section 3: The Tasks and Possibilities of Social Democracy: The Most Pressing Problems of Social Democracy — 1:00:23
13. 12 - Conclusion: Ultimate Aim and Tendency - Kant against Cant — 48:36

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