Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism (Historical Materialism Book Series; Volume 196) by Karl Kautsky. Edited and translated by Ben Lewis - 2020

BRILL, 2020. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. A star pupil of Marx and Engels in his youth, Kautsky (1854-1938) was the leading theoretician behind the German Social Democratic Party's original course of decisive hostility and implacable opposition to the German Empire (1871-1918) and the capitalist state in general, says Lewis. He discusses Kautsky's democratic republicanism as an introduction to the first English translations of his Parliamentarism, Direct Legislation by the People and Social Democracy (1893), of The Republic and Social Democracy in France (1905), and of Kautsky's autobiography The Development of a Marxist (1924). He appends his own translation of the pivotal Erfurt program and its various drafts. (2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)