A late 19th Century leader of the SPD who isn't a doctrinaire Marxist! Imagine that! It's so refreshing to read ideas that aren't just irrational regurgitations of the works of Marx. A reasonable balance between cooperativism, trade unionism, and democratism, supported by historical events and current statistics - a dream come true! That is, until he starts being imperialistic. That brings him down several notches, unfortunately. But apart from that, a highly reasonable treatise.