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Karl Kautsky and the Socialist Revolution 1880-1938

By Massimo , Recorded Books , Inc.;Salvadori

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services);Verso
Year
2016
ISBN
9780860915287, 9781784787844, 9781784787851, 1784787841, 178478785X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
511 kB (523361 bytes)
Series
Verso modern classics
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Political science;POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political IdePost-Communism & SocialismPost-Communism & Socialism;Electronic books;POLITI

Description

This first modern study provides an original and balanced perspective of a theorist whom Lenin referred to as both 'master of Marxism' and 'renegade'. Examining Kautsky's political thought over a period stretching from the Paris Commune to the Second World War, the author argues for the consistency with which Kautsky developed his positions on socialism, democracy, political parties and the role of the proletariat. While Salvadori's analysis is grounded in the debates within the Communist International and the German labour movement, Kautsky emerges as a distinctly modern thinker who produced a Marxist theory of the state, and originated critique of the USSR as a 'state capitalist' system. At this level, it provides a serious and measured exposition of the terms on which arguments for socialist strategy currently move.

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