Who was Karl Kautsky and what did he do?

Karl Johann Kautsky ( /ˈkaʊtski/; German: [ˈkaʊtski]; 16 October 1854 – 17 October 1938) was a Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician. Kautsky was recognized as among the most authoritative promulgators of Orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895 until the outbreak…

What did Karl Kautsky think about the Bolsheviks?

A collection of excerpts of Kautsky’s writings, Social Democracy vs. Communism, discussed Bolshevist rule in Russia. He saw the Bolsheviks (or Communists) as a conspiratorial organization that had gained power by a coup and initiated revolutionary changes for which there was no economic rationale in Russia.

When did Karl Kautsky publish Die Diktatur des Proletariats?

Kautsky’s opening broadside against the revolutionary violence of the Russian Revolution, Die Diktatur des Proletariats (The Dictatorship of the Proletariat), first published in Vienna in 1918. In 1920, when the USPD split, he went with a minority of that party back into the SPD.

When was the proletarian revolution and the Renegade Kautsky written?

The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky (most frequently published as The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Renegade Kautsky) is a work by Vladimir Lenin written in October and November 1918 defending the Bolsheviks against criticisms being made against them by Karl Kautsky who was then the intellectual leader of Marxists.

Why did Kautsky write dictatorship of the proletariat?

Spurred by Kautsky’s 1918 pamphlet The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, Lenin’s pamphlet was part of an ongoing polemic between various Bolshevik leaders and the social democrat Kautsky about the role of democracy and force in the transition to socialism .