Karl Kautsky and the Socialist Revolution 1880-1938
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- ISBN 9780860915287
- Weight: 474g
- Dimensions: 137 x 218mm
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 1990
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Massimo Slavadori was born in Ivrea, Northern Italy, in 1936. A lecturer in contemporary history, he has written widely on Gramsci, Lenin, Eurocommunism and Soviet Socialism. His activity on the Italian left includes contributions to Il Manifesto during the 1960s, and a later association with the Socialist Party.
