Karl Kautsky, 1854–1938: Marxism In The Classical Years
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A landmark work in political biography, this study chronicles the life and intellectual legacy of Karl Kautsky, the foremost theorist of orthodox Marxism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Gary P. Steenson presents a meticulously researched account of Kautsky's evolution from a young disciple of Marx and Engels into the leading ideological authority of the Second International. The biography illuminates the fierce doctrinal battles of the era, from the revisionist controversy sparked by Eduard Bernstein to the cataclysmic ruptures of World War I and the Russian Revolution, which ultimately left Kautsky a reviled figure among Bolsheviks and a marginalised one within European social democracy. Authoritative in tone and rigorous in analysis, it remains an indispensable reference for understanding the development of socialist thought during its classical period.
Author: Gary P. Steenson
Format: Paperback
Published: 1978, University of Pittsburgh Press
Genre: Biography
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A landmark work in political biography, this study chronicles the life and intellectual legacy of Karl Kautsky, the foremost theorist of orthodox Marxism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Gary P. Steenson presents a meticulously researched account of Kautsky's evolution from a young disciple of Marx and Engels into the leading ideological authority of the Second International. The biography illuminates the fierce doctrinal battles of the era, from the revisionist controversy sparked by Eduard Bernstein to the cataclysmic ruptures of World War I and the Russian Revolution, which ultimately left Kautsky a reviled figure among Bolsheviks and a marginalised one within European social democracy. Authoritative in tone and rigorous in analysis, it remains an indispensable reference for understanding the development of socialist thought during its classical period.