With the discussion, in the last chapter, of the tendencies of capitalistic development, we have entered upon the proper domain of Revisionism. While it is true that the Revisionists revise to a greater or less extent the accepted Marxian philosophico-historic and economic theories, this is done only as an incidental to their criticism of the Marxian conclusions as to the historic course and ultimate fate of capitalism. Moreover, wherever Revisionists attempt to criticize the fundamentals of the Marxian system, they do so usually only in so far as it is necessary in order to attack that superstructure of conclusions with reference to the capitalistic system which Marx erected on those fundamentals. This is to be seen not only from the nature of the criticism itself which the Revisionists pass on the Marxian theory, but also from the history of Revisionism. Revisionism, which was at one time, before it assumed its present proportions, known as Bernsteinianism, after Eduard Bernstein, its foremost representative, began in a very modest and unassuming way by questioning the accuracy of some of the conclusions to which Marx arrived as to the course and tempo of capitalist development. And it was only after it appeared in the course of the discussion that these conclusions were intimately related to the whole structure of the Marxian theoretical system that the fundamentals of his system were first called into question by Revisionists. But even then the true Revisionists did not at-
