"The basic question was whether socialists should work toward revolution and the outright collapse of the capitalist system—or whether they should work to pass social reforms that make capitalism more humane.
"Bernstein favored the reformist approach. Socialists, he believed, should abandon the goal of bringing capitalism to a point of crisis and achieving some final socialist end state. The point of having a socialist movement is not to 'achieve socialism' in some sense, but to exist as a force pushing to make life better for workers. 'The movement means everything for me,' Bernstein famously wrote, 'and … what is usually called "the final aim of socialism" is nothing.'"
Dylan Matthews at Vox explores how Bernie Sanders connects to the history of socialism.
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