Come on, Justin, you know better than this kind of silliness. We are talking about Bernstein, not Kautsky, and Bernstein was quite clearly _not_ an orthodox Marxist. His major contribution to socialist thought was a critique of what he understood, rightly or wrongly, to be orthodox Marxism -- which is precisely what sent Kautsky, Luxemburg, Lenin, Et. Al. into the stratosphere over it.
And speculating what a Bernstein might have done if he somewhere were transported via time machine into the United States more than a century later seems designed to show just how useless such historical counterfactuals are.
Surely you can find a better way of securing your credentials as an orthodox Marxist here.
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