Author : Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Release : 2016-09-07
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Book Synopsis The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky by : Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Download or read book The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky written by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. This book was released on 2016-09-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kautsky's pamphlet, The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, recently published in Vienna (Wien, 1918, Ignaz Brand, pp. 63) is a most lucid example of that utter and ignominious bankruptcy of the Second International about which all honest socialists in all countries have been talking for a long time. The proletarian revolution is now becoming a practical issue in a number of countries, and an examination of Kautsky's renegade sophistries and his complete renunciation of Marxism is therefore essential. First of all, it should be emphasised, however, that the present author has, from the very beginning of the war, repeatedly pointed to Kautsky's rupture with Marxism. A number of articles published between 1914 and 1916 in Sotsial-Demokrat and Kommunist, issued abroad, dealt with this subject. These articles were afterwards collected and published by the Petrograd Soviet under the title Against the Stream, by G. Zinoviev and N. Lenin (Petrograd, 1918, pp. 550).