In this book, first published in 1992, the author examines the polemic fought by German Social-Democratic Party leaders and intellectuals Karl Kautsky and Eduard Bernstein against what they perceived to be misunderstandings of Marxism propagated by members of the Social-Democrat…
In this book, first published in 1992, the author examines the polemic fought by German Social-Democratic Party leaders and intellectuals Karl Kautsky and Eduard Bernstein against what they perceived to be misunderstandings of Marxism propagated by members of the Social-Democrat…
This book is, so far, by far the most typical expression of the Bolshevik temperament which the revolution has produced. Characteristically it is a polemic, and not a constructive essay.-Pref. This book was written ... at the height of the Russian Civil War. While it is a polemi…
Soon after the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky led the Red Army against the counter-revolutionary White armies. Part of the "Revolutions" series, this work argues that Trotsky's attack on the illusions of democracy has a vital relevance.
Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia's Civil War, Trotsky's Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship. In his provocative commentary to this new edition the philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues that Trotskyʹs attack on the i…
La 4eme de couverture indique : "Once deemed 'the pope of Marxism', Karl Kautsky (1854-1938) was the leading theoretician of the German Social Democratic Party and one of the most prominent public intellectuals of his time. However, during the twentieth century a constellation o…
Introduction: Karl Kautsky's democratic republicanism -- Parliamentarism and democracy (1893) -- The Republic and social democracy in France (1905) -- The development of a Marxist (1924). "Once deemed 'the pope of Marxism', Karl Kautsky (1854-1938) was the leading theoretician …