The Proletarian Revolution And The Renegade Kautsky
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Written in the white heat of revolutionary urgency in 1918, The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky stands as one of Lenin's most ferocious and intellectually incisive polemical works, a direct assault on Karl Kautsky's critique of Bolshevik governance in the immediate aftermath of the October Revolution. Lenin systematically dismantles Kautsky's arguments against Soviet power, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the Bolshevik dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, arguing with characteristic force that Kautsky had fundamentally betrayed Marxist principles by siding with bourgeois democracy over revolutionary class struggle. The text presents a rigorous and combative defence of the Soviet state's legitimacy, contrasting the proletarian democracy of the Soviets against what Lenin contemptuously dismisses as the hollow formalism of parliamentary institutions. Beyond its immediate polemical purpose, this work illuminates the profound theoretical fault lines that divided the Second and Third Internationals, and remains an indispensable document for understanding the fierce ideological battles that shaped the trajectory of 20th-century socialism. Lenin's prose is unrelenting — methodical, sardonic, and unsparing — as he illustrates the gap between revolutionary theory and what he saw as reformist capitulation. This 1965 Foreign Languages Press edition, published in Peking, also reflects the Sino-Soviet context of its reprinting, adding yet another layer of historical intrigue to an already landmark text. Who, ultimately, was the true heir of Marx — and what does the answer reveal about the nature of revolution itself?
Author: V. I. Lenin
Format: Paperback
Published: 1965, Foreign Languages Press
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Written in the white heat of revolutionary urgency in 1918, The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky stands as one of Lenin's most ferocious and intellectually incisive polemical works, a direct assault on Karl Kautsky's critique of Bolshevik governance in the immediate aftermath of the October Revolution. Lenin systematically dismantles Kautsky's arguments against Soviet power, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the Bolshevik dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, arguing with characteristic force that Kautsky had fundamentally betrayed Marxist principles by siding with bourgeois democracy over revolutionary class struggle. The text presents a rigorous and combative defence of the Soviet state's legitimacy, contrasting the proletarian democracy of the Soviets against what Lenin contemptuously dismisses as the hollow formalism of parliamentary institutions. Beyond its immediate polemical purpose, this work illuminates the profound theoretical fault lines that divided the Second and Third Internationals, and remains an indispensable document for understanding the fierce ideological battles that shaped the trajectory of 20th-century socialism. Lenin's prose is unrelenting — methodical, sardonic, and unsparing — as he illustrates the gap between revolutionary theory and what he saw as reformist capitulation. This 1965 Foreign Languages Press edition, published in Peking, also reflects the Sino-Soviet context of its reprinting, adding yet another layer of historical intrigue to an already landmark text. Who, ultimately, was the true heir of Marx — and what does the answer reveal about the nature of revolution itself?