To Hell With Democracy? Rather than blanket rejection or blind leftist worship, communists should aim for a more nuanced position on democracy that recognizes its…
The free society - Karl Kautsky Kautsky imagines how society would look after the dissolution of the state by a comparison with life in the Indian village commune.
Review: Conventional lies of our civilisation - Karl Kautsky Kautsky reviews a popular book of the social critic Max Nordau.
State socialism - Karl Kautsky First article of a 3-part series by Karl Kautsky from 1881. It is a critique of state socialism. The second article can be found here.
The abolition of the state - Karl Kautsky This is the second article in a 3-part series by Karl Kautsky from 1881. This part is about the anarchist position towards the state.
Kautsky's theory of proletarian revolution - Isaak Alter A critical survey, quite detailed, but containing few new insights. Source: Under the Banner of…
Bolshevik matters - Karl Kautsky 5 fragments of Kautsky on Bolshevik related matters published here for the first time.
Ideology and class struggle - Pierre Guillaume A classic restatement of the views of Marx and Engels on ideology and the formation of class consciousness, contrasting them with the…
An der Wende zweier Epochen - Victor Chernov Von Viktor Tschernow. Executive representative for the Socialist-Revolutionary Party to the Labour and Socialist International.
The success of the dictatorships - Karl Kautsky For the 60th anniversary of Sam de Wolff. Speech given on 13 August 1938 shortly before Kautsky's death (17-10-1938), denouncing fascist and…
A correction on Friederich Engels - Karl Kautsky Refutation of a communist slander. (Background details below)
Historical Materialism Explained To Workers - Herman Gorter Pamphlet from 1908 attempting to clearly explain the Marxist concept of historical materialism to working people.
