• source :: https://cosmonaut.blog/2021/02/01/the-revolutionary-karl-kautsky-with-ben-lewis/

• tags :: revolutionKarl Kautsky

• related to :: Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October Revolution | Jacobin

Notes

• Vladimir Leninwas the first and most influential person to malign Kautsky

• Stalin#39;s short course also minimized the role of Kautsky

• Throughout the early socialist movement there was a strong emphasis on republicanism and Kautsky also wrote about this

  • Perhaps this was because many early socialist countries were also effectively autocracies, and republicanism was relatively radical compared to that

• Engelssaid that the French Third Republicwas "an empire without an empire"

• Kautsky felt that direct democracywas of only limited use, and criticized other socialists over it

• Probably not useful to think of the SPDas just a labor party but as a Marxist party that degenerated