The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky

The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky
Author: Douglas Greene
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2024-06-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1040030920

This text offers an authoritative historiography of German socialist theorist Karl Kautsky and his impact on debates about the Russian Revolution and the contemporary left. Known as the “Pope of Marxism,” Douglas Greene examines the totality of Kautsky’s political career and dissects the fundamental opportunism and passive radicalism that defined his Marxism. He later examines the most substantive Marxist critics of Kautsky, namely Rosa Luxemburg, V. I. Lenin, and Leon Trotsky, while offering a critical assessment of the work produced by scholars and activists, Lars Lih, Eric Blanc, and Mike Mcnair, seeking to revive Kautsky. The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky is an important addition to scholarship on the subject and a valuable resource for those interested in the Russian Revolution, German politics, socialism, Marxism, and contemporary left-wing debates.

The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky

The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky
Author: DOUGLAS. GREENE
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781032758787

This book examines the totality of Kautsky's political career and dissects the fundamental opportunism and passive radicalism that defined his Marxism, while also offering a critical assessment of the work produced by scholars and activists seeking to revive Kautsky.

The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky

The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky
Author: Doug Enaa Greene
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: Socialism
ISBN: 9781032784427

"This text offers an authoritative historiography of German socialist theorist Karl Kautsky and his impact on debates about the Russian Revolution and the contemporary left. Known as the "Pope of Marxism", Douglas Greene examines the totality of Kautsky's political career and dissects the fundamental opportunism and passive radicalism that defined his Marxism. He later examines the most substantive Marxist critics of Kautsky, namely Rosa Luxemburg, V. I. Lenin, and Leon Trotsky while offering a critical assessment of the work produced by scholars and activists, Lars Lih, Eric Blanc, and Mike Mcnair, seeking to revive Kautsky. The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky is an important addition to scholarship on the subject, and a valuable resource for those interested in the Russian Revolution, German politics, socialism, Marxism, and contemporary left-wing debates"--

Karl Kautsky

Karl Kautsky
Author: John Hans Kautsky
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 280
Release:
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781412827102

Political Science

Karl Kautsky and the Socialist Revolution 1880-1938

Karl Kautsky and the Socialist Revolution 1880-1938
Author: Massimo Salvadori
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2016-02-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 178478785X

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.

Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism

Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism
Author: Karl Kautsky
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 900439284X

Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism contains the first English-language translations of important political works by Kautsky. Ben Lewis demonstrates how Kautsky’s programmatic conclusions were positively influenced by Marx and Engels – especially the lessons they drew from the Paris Commune.

Karl Kautsky, 1854-1938

Karl Kautsky, 1854-1938
Author: Gary P. Steenson
Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1978
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

'This outstanding political biography traces the development of Kausky as a thinker and a Socialist. The author treats Kautsky with respect and affection without minimizing his weaknesses. In fact, this work could serve as a model for political biographies: it is meticulously researched in archives and libraries; it is written in good, clear, declarative sentences, and it avoids the major pitfall of polemicizing instead of enlightening.' -Bernard K. Johnpoll, Labor History