与传统的社会主义理论不同,伯恩施坦认为资本主义有可能不会发生能成为社会变革前奏的巨大危机,因而不能寄希望于发动一场革命来实现社会主义,而应该考虑“和平长入社会主义”。在这一总的原则指导之下,伯恩施坦对许多实践中的问题都提出了具体策略,如农业问题、合作社问题、殖民地问题等。这些具体问题的策略都不同程度地反映了伯恩施坦的修正主义思想,其中关于殖民主义的思想最具有代表性。伯恩施坦的殖民主义思想与马克思、恩格斯的思想存在本质不同。 Different from the traditional theory of socialism, Bernstein believes that capitalism may not have a tremendous crisis that can become the prelude to social change and can not hope to launch a revolution to realize socialism. Instead, he should consider “ socialism”. Guided by this general principle, Bernstein proposes specific strategies for many practical problems, such as agriculture, cooperatives and colonial issues. The strategies of these specific problems all reflect Bernstein’s revisionism to varying degrees, of which colonialism is the most representative. Bernstein’s colonialism differs from Marx’s and Engels’s thought in essence.