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 … - Eduard Bernstein

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

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.

[T]he increase of social wealth is not accompanied by a diminishing number of capitalist magnates, but by an increasing number of capitalists of all degrees.