ABSTRACT
A Gradual opposition developed in Germany to the Marxian point of view. It was the opposition of the revisionists. The center of the opposition was in southern Germany—Saxony and Bavaria—where capitalist industry had not developed as rapidly as in Prussia and where the state was more democratic. George von Vollmar, the leader of the Bavarian social democrats, always refused to accept the dogma that capital and land—particularly the latter—were being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. He urged that increasing attention be given by socialists to immediate reforms, and maintained that this was necessary in order to obtain the support of the farming population who would be alienated if the socialists insisted that aid could come to the present proprietors only through the evolutionary process leading to the concentration of farming and to ultimate socialization.
