[Marxism] From the archives, German socialism at beginning of 20th c.

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

New York Times, London, Sept. 28, 1901
SOCIALISTS AT LUEBECK
Bernstein Would Have Them Dream Less and Work More

The chief figures at the Socialists’ Congress in Lubeck this week  
were Eduard Bernstein and August Bebel. Bernstein was banished from  
Germany a quarter of a century ago and has dwelt in Switzerland and  
London. This reform in Socialism is trying to make his fellows dream  
less and work more; he is accused of being an Opportunist and was  
voted down in the convention, but his writings reach every German  
workingman and form the most potent force Socialism now exerts.

Herr Bebel, who overcame Bernstein in the convention, is a man of  
wonderful eloquence, visionary, but opposed to revolution and bloodshed.

The convention was merely a matter of speechmaking, and will come to  
nothing, and, except for the strong personal force of Bernstein,  
developed nothing concerning the powers supposedly antagonistic to  
modern society.

[unsigned short note on page 7]




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