Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism

Karl Kautsky's essential works on Democracy, translated into English for the first time.

List of contents

Preface Acknowledgements
Introduction: Karl Kautsky's Democratic Republicanism
Part 1 Karl Kautsky, Parliamentarism and Democracy (1893)
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1 Direct Legislation in Prehistory
2 Direct Legislation in Civilisation
3 Urban Democracy in Antiquity
4 The Representative System
5 Monarchical and Parliamentary Absolutism
6 Modern Democracy
7 Rittinghausen's Proposal
8 Drafting Laws
9 Implementing Laws
10 Jurisprudence and the Press
11 Parliamentarism and the Parties in England
12 Parliamentarism and the Working Classes
13 Direct Legislation by the People and the Class Struggle
Part 2 Karl Kautsky, The Republic and Social Democracy in France (1905)
1 Clarifying the Dispute
2 The American Republic
3 The First Republic
4 The Second Republic and the Socialists
5 The Second Empire and the Paris Commune
6 The Constitution of the Third Republic
7 The Bourgeois Republicans at Work
8 Socialism in the Third Republic
Part 3 Karl Kautsky, The Development of a Marxist (1924)
Appendix: Synoptic Overview of the Drafts of the Erfurt Programme (1891) Bibliography Index

About the author

Karl Kautsky (1854-1938) was the leading theoretician of the German Social Democratic Party and one of the most prominent public intellectuals of his time.
Ben Lewis is a tutor and Wolfson Scholar PhD candidate in Germanic Studies at the University of Sheffield. His publications include Clara Zetkin: Letters and Writings (Merlin Press, 2015); Karl Kautsky on Colonialism (November Publications, 2013); and Martov and Zinoviev: Head-to-Head in Halle (November Publications, 2011).

Summary

Karl Kautsky's essential works on Democracy, translated into English for the first time.

Product details

• Authors: Karl Kautsky, Kautsky Karl
• Assisted by: Ben Lewis (Editor), Ben Lewis (Translation), Ben Lewis (Editor and translation), Lewis Ben (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.10.2020
• EAN: 9781642593372
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-337-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Historical Materialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, Political structures / systems: democracy