The Stuttgart Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) was held between October 3–October 8, 1898, in Stuttgart , Kingdom of Württemberg (now Germany ).
7-596: The Stuttgart Congress was the first congress to discuss the question of revisionism in the SPD. A statement sent by Eduard Bernstein , who was exiled, was read to the Congress. In it, he exposed and defended his revisionist views, previously exhibited in the series of articles Problems of Socialism published in the magazine Die Neue Zeit ("The New Times"). In the Congress, Karl Kautsky and August Bebel made an initial critique of Bernsteinism. Rosa Luxemburg maintained
14-520: A political party in Germany is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Revisionism (Marxism) In Marxist philosophy , revisionism , otherwise known as Marxist reformism , represents various ideas, principles, and theories that are based on a reform or revision of Marxism . According to their critics, this involves a significant revision of fundamental Marxist theories and premises , and usually involves making an alliance with
21-487: A more intransigent position against Bernstein's revisionism. The Congress did not adopt a resolution on this matter, but, despite the division in how to treat the question of Bernsteinism, the majority of the party showed its opposition to it. In the Hanover Congress of 1899 , the party approved a resolution that formally condemned Bernsteinist attacks on the party's policy and tactics. This article about
28-408: Is the negation of class struggle . Revisionism has been used in a number of contexts to refer to different or claimed revisions of Marxist theory . Those who opposed Karl Marx 's revolution through his lens of class struggle and sought out non-revolutionary or more conciliatory means for a change are known as revisionists. Eduard Bernstein , a close acquaintance of Marx and Friedrich Engels ,
35-485: The bourgeois class . Some academic economists have used revisionism to describe post-Stalinist , Eastern European writers who criticized one-party rule and argued in favour of freedom of the press and of the arts , intra- and sometimes inter-party democracy, independent labor unions , the abolition of bureaucratic privileges, and the subordination of police forces to the judiciary power. In Marxist discourse, revisionism often carries pejorative connotations and
42-454: The term has been used by many different factions. It is typically applied to others and rarely as a self-description. By extension, Marxists who view themselves as fighting against revisionism have often self-identified as Marxist–Leninist anti-revisionists . Revisionism is most often used as an epithet by those Marxists who believe that such revisions are unwarranted and represent a watering down or abandonment of Marxism—one such common example
49-603: Was one of the first major revisionists, and was prominent in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In the late 19th century, the term revisionism was used to describe democratic socialist writers, such as Bernstein, who sought to revise Marx's ideas about the transition to socialism and claimed that a revolution was not necessary to achieve a socialist society. The views of Bernstein gave rise to reformist theory, which asserts that socialism can be achieved through gradual peaceful reforms from within
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