Frases de Eduard Bernstein (11 citas)

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“Arquímedes, dijo: «Dadme un punto de apoyo y levantaré el mundo.» De igual modo puedo decir, también, a la clase obrera: «Dadme el sufragio universal e igualitario y se habrá conseguido el principio social que es requisito fundamental de la liberación.”

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“Tal como yo lo veo, hay que concluir que el socialismo llega, está en camino, pero no como desenlace de una colosal batalla política decisiva, sino como fruto de toda una serie de victorias económicas y políticas del movimiento obrero en sus distintos campos de actuación; no como consecuencia de un aumento cada vez más considerable de la opresión, de la miseria, de la humillación de los obreros, sino como efecto de su creciente influjo social y de las relativas mejoras conquistadas por ellos de índole económica, política y ética. No es del caos de donde veo surgir la sociedad socialista, sino de las realizaciones de tipo organizativo de los obreros en el terreno de la economía libre, unidas a las instituciones y a los logros a nivel estatal y comunal de la democracia militante. Tras todas las convulsiones y todos los golpes de las fuerzas reaccionarias, a pesar de ellos, descubro cómo la misma lucha de clases adopta formas más civilizadas; y precisamente en ese ir civilizándose de las luchas políticas y económicas veo la mejor garantía de realización del socialismo.”

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Fuente: Was ist Sozialismus?, Verlag fiir Sozialwissenschaft, Berlin, 1922. [referencia incompleta]

“La interpretación económica de la Historia no significa necesariamente que todos los acontecimientos son determinados de manera exclusiva por las fuerzas económicas. Significa tan sólo que los hechos económicos son las fuerzas decisivas que siempre reaparecen, los puntos principales en el proceso de la Historia.”

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Eduard Bernstein: Frases en inglés

“The parties which assumed the names of liberals were, or became in due course, simple guardians of capitalism.”

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Fuente: "Evolutionary Socialism" (1899) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1899/evsoc/index.htm, Chapter III, The Tasks and Possibilities of Social Democracy

“The fact of the modern national States or empires not having originated organically does not prevent their being organs of that great entity which we call civilised humanity, and which is much too extensive to be included in any single State. And, indeed, these organs are at present necessary and of great importance for human development. On this point Socialists can scarcely differ now. And it is not even to be regretted, from the Socialist point of view, that they are not characterised purely by their common descent. The purely ethnological national principle is reactionary in its results. Whatever else one may think about the race-problem, it is certain that the thought of a national division of mankind according to race is anything rather than a human ideal. The national quality is developing on the contrary more and more into a sociological function. But understood as such it is a progressive principle, and in this sense Socialism can and must be national. This is no contradiction of the cosmopolitan consciousness, but only its necessary completion, The world-citizenship, this glorious attainment of civilisation, would, if the relationship to national tasks and rational duties were missing, become a flabby characterless parasitism. Even when we sing "Ubi bene, ibi patria," we still acknowledge a "patria," and, therefore, in accordance with the motto, "No rights without duties"; also duties towards her.”

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Bernstein, Eduard. "Patriotism, Militarism and Social-Democracy." (Originally published as: "Militarism." Social Democrat. Vol.11 no.7, 15 July 1907, pp.413-419.) http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1907/07/patriotism.htm

“We may think as we like theoretically, about man’s freedom of action, we must practically start from it as the foundation of the moral law, for only under this condition is social morality possible.”

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Fuente: "Evolutionary Socialism" (1899) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1899/evsoc/index.htm, Chapter III, The Tasks and Possibilities of Social Democracy

“Democracy is the high school of compromise.”

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Fuente: "Evolutionary Socialism" (1899) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1899/evsoc/index.htm, Chapter III, The Tasks and Possibilities of Social Democracy

“Democracy is in principle the suppression of class government, though it is not yet the actual suppression of classes.”

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Fuente: "Evolutionary Socialism" (1899) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1899/evsoc/index.htm, Chapter III, The Tasks and Possibilities of Social Democracy

“If democracy is not to excel centralised absolutism in the breeding of bureaucracies, it must be built up on an elaborately organised self-government with a corresponding economic, personal responsibility of all the units of administration as well as of the adult citizens of the state. Nothing is more injurious to its healthy development than enforced uniformity and a too abundant amount of protectionism or subventionism.”

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Fuente: "Evolutionary Socialism" (1899) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1899/evsoc/index.htm, Chapter III, The Tasks and Possibilities of Social Democracy

“The aim of all socialist measures, even of those which appear outwardly as coercive measures, is the development and the securing of a free personality. Their more exact examination always shows that the coercion included will raise the sum total of liberty in society, and will give more freedom over a more extended area than it takes away.”

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Fuente: "Evolutionary Socialism" (1899) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1899/evsoc/index.htm, Chapter III, The Tasks and Possibilities of Social Democracy

“The increase of social wealth is not accompanied by a diminishing number of capitalist magnates, but by an increasing number of capitalists of all degrees.”

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Fuente: "Evolutionary Socialism" (1899) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1899/evsoc/index.htm, Chapter II, The Economic Development of Modern Society