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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

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