Before the Revisionist Controversy: Kautsky, Bernstein, and the Meaning of Marxism, 1895-1898 (Routledge Library Editions: Marxism) - Softcover

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Rogers, H. Kendall

 
9781138898837: Before the Revisionist Controversy: Kautsky, Bernstein, and the Meaning of Marxism, 1895-1898 (Routledge Library Editions: Marxism)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 113889883X ISBN 13: 9781138898837
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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-Democratic Federation (SDF) in England and by the socialist leader Wilhelm Liebknecht in Germany. The debate raised basic questions of socialist theory, including whether the program of Marx and Engels called for scholarly study, parliamentary democracy, and gradual social evolution, or for Utopian speculation, economic collapse, and violent rebellion.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113889883X
ISBN 13 
9781138898837
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
498