የወዛደሩ አብዮትና ከሐዲው ካውትስኪ = The Proletarian Revolution and The Renegade Kautsky

by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin

Other authorsDemeqe Begashaw (Translator)

Paperback, 1980

Status

Available

Call number

335.4

Genres

Philosophy

General Nonfiction

Politics, Government, Law and Public Policy

History

Nonfiction

Publication

Addis Ababa : [s.n.], ስኔ 1972 EY, 1980

Description

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).… (more)

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LibraryThing member ericlee

It’s said that when he died, Lenin left behind a library in which the largest number of books were written by himself — but the second largest group were books written by Karl Kautsky. Kautsky was not only Lenin’s mentor, but was widely seen as the ‘pope of Marxism’, a voice of authority

on the international Left. Nine months after the Bolshevik coup d’etat in 1917, Kautsky published a short book called ‘The Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ which expressed his reservations about what Lenin and his comrades were doing in Russia. This book is Lenin’s answer, written at a time when Russia was in the midst of a civil war. It is incredible that Lenin found the time to write such, but such was Kautsky’s importance to him. Lenin’s arguments are not convincing and more to the point, they are incredibly nasty and vituperative. He took Kautsky’s attacks very personally and much of the book consists of a series of insults, such as repeatedly calling Kautsky ‘stupid’. The arguments Lenin made in the book are long forgotten, but what lingers is a style of polemic which he pioneered, the nastiness of which you can still hear today from supporters of the authoritarian Left.

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