#+title: The Revolutionary Karl Kautsky | Cosmonaut
- source :: [[https://cosmonaut.blog/2021/02/01/the-revolutionary-karl-kautsky-with-ben-lewis/]]
- tags :: [[file:../20200713100151-revolution.org][revolution]] [[file:../20200706092541-karl_kautsky.org][Karl Kautsky]]
- related to :: [[file:20201229145547-karl_kautsky_as_architect_of_the_october_revolution_jacobin.org][Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October Revolution | Jacobin]]

* Notes
- [[file:../20200706092621-vladimir_lenin.org][Vladimir Lenin]] was the first and most influential person to malign Kautsky
- [[file:../20201020153750-stalin.org][Stalin]]'s short course also minimized the role of Kautsky
- Throughout the early socialist movement there was a strong emphasis on
  [[file:../20210302134420-republicanism.org][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
- [[file:../20200611204104-engels.org][Engels]] said that the [[file:../20210302140300-french_third_republic.org][French Third Republic]] was "an empire without an empire"
- Kautsky felt that [[file:../20210302141441-direct_democracy.org][direct democracy]] was of only limited use, and criticized
  other socialists over it
- Probably not useful to think of the [[file:../20200706092530-german_social_democratic_party.org][SPD]] as just a [[file:../20210302144830-labor_party.org][labor party]], but as a
  Marxist party that degenerated