The Road to Power - Softcover

Kautsky, Karl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916695123 ISBN 13: 9780916695125

Verlag: Center for Socialist History, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The Road to Power has often been described as one of Karl Kautsky's most important and revolutionary works. The book also gained prominence as a result of its reception. As Kautsky's last major attack on those who hoped for a gradual "growth into socialism" by means of reforms and coalitions in the autocratic Wilhelmine Empire, it outraged Revisionists in the Social Democratic Party as well as certain trade union leaders.

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Friends and enemies of theS ocialists agree upon one ~~) thing, and that is that they constitute a revolutionary party. But unfortunately the idea of revolution is manysided, and consequently the conceptions of the revolutionary character of our party differ very greatly. Not a few of our opponents insist upon understanding revolution to mean nothing else but anarchy, bloodshed, murder and arson. On the other hand there are some of our comrades to whom the coming social revolution appears to be noticing more than an extremely gradual, scarcely perceptible, even though ultimately a fundamental change in social relations, much of the same character as that produced by .the steam engine. .J So much is certain: that theS ocialists, as the jchampions of the class interests of the proletariat, constitute, a revolutionary party, because it is. impossible to raise this class to a satisfactory existence within capitalist society; and because the liberation of the working class is only possible through the overthrow of private property in the means of production i an Jrulership, and the substitution of social production for production for profit. The proletariat can attain to :satisfaction of its wants only in a society whose instituI tions shall differ fundamentally from the present one. JJ In still another way theS ocialists are revolutionary.
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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Center for Socialist History
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0916695123
• ISBN 13: 9780916695125
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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