>I don't think Bernstein every rejected the downfall of capitalism.
Luxemburg thought he rejected the inevitablte downfall of capitalism, anyway.
>The
>question was whether socialism could be achieved through reform of
>capitalism or whether a revolutionary reconstitution of society was
>necessary.
Not unrelated.
>Only if
>the working class is in control of the state making the laws. Bernstein
>thought this could be done through the electoral process.
Something of a misrepresentation. B saw a lot of the functions of the state shifted toworker woned coops. What he rejected was the model of depression + armed insurrection. Quite right too.
>Luxemburg,
>following Marx, thought the existing state had to be broken up and
>reconstituted in a form
B never denied that a socialist sattew ould be different from a capitalist one.
jks
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