Conrad Schmidt (economist)

Conrad Schmidt (25 November 1863 – 14 October 1932) was a German economist, philosopher, and journalist of the Social Democratic Party.

According to Schmidt, these qualities arise from the primary animal superegoistic instincts that are formed in every living being in the course of evolution to preserve the species and become more conscious and rational in humans in order to be realized in the working class.

The philosophical works of Schmidt, in which he proposed to combine Marxism with the philosophy of Kant, served as an ideological source of revisionism espoused by Eduard Bernstein.

[2] Since Schmidt saw no possibility of an academic career in Switzerland for himself, he returned to Berlin in 1895, where he worked for the social democratic weekly newspaper Vorwärts.

[4] Conrad Schmidt and his wife Anna were buried in the artists' department of Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery.