Abstract
Herein presented contribution deals with the Eduard Bernstein's Marxist revisionist model, one of the leaders of the German Social Democractic Party. It was in the late of the 19th century, when Bernstain published the original revision of Marxist doctrine, forming the basis for his famous and seminal work called The Preconditions of Socialism that became classical defence of the democratic socialism.
He criticized the labour theory of value, economic determinism, and the significance of the class struggle. In the light of modern society evolution, Bernstein showed that some of Marx's prediction had been disproved: he asserted that capitalism was not on the verge of collapse, capital was not being amassed by fewer and fewer persons, the middle class was not disappearing, and the working class was not afflicted by "increasing misery".
Regarding historico-sociological perspective, this contribution aim to introduce Eduard Bernstein as an actor who reflects the change in social and economical structure at the turn of the 20th century.