Before the Revisionist Controversy (Rle Marxism) Kautsky, Bernstein, and the Meaning of Marxism, 1895-1898

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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• Authors: H. Kendall Rogers, Rogers H. Kendall
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 08.04.2015
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9781138890985
• ISBN: 978-1-138-89098-5
• Pages: 498
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Marxism
• Subjects: History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Social Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Social discrimination & inequality, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Social classes, Political science and theory, Marxism & Communism, Social discrimination and social justice, Parliamentary Socialism, social democracy theory, Fabian Society influence, revolutionary consciousness, Erfurt Program analysis, Marxist theory evolution 1890s, economic determinism debate