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Karl Kautsky Quotes

1854–1938 Austria

Karl Johann Kautsky (16 October 1854–17 October 1938) was a Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician. Kautsky was recognised as among the most authoritative promulgators of Orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895 until the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and was called by some the "Pope of Marxism." Following the war, Kautsky was an outspoken critic of the Bolshevik Revolution and its excesses, engaging in polemics with V.

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But if socialism is a social necessity, then it would be human nature and not socialism which would have to readjust itself, if ever the two clashed.

The Bolsheviki under Lenin's leadership, however, succeeded in capturing control of the armed forces in Petrograd and later in Moscow and thus laid the foundation for a new dictatorship in place of the old Czarist dictatorship.

Marxism and Bolshevism: Democracy and Dictatorship (1934)

The choice of methods and weapons to be used by the champions of democracy will not depend upon our wishes but will be determined by political and social conditions. and especially by the methods and weapons of the enemy.

Hitlerism and Social Democracy (1934)

Our duty is not merely to abolish the capitalist order but to set up a higher order in its place. But we must oppose those forces aiming to destroy capitalism only in order to replace it with another barbarous mode of production.

Hitlerism and Social Democracy (1934)

Under all circumstances we shall remain the champions of democracy and humanity. We reject as senseless and cruel and ruinous to both our cause and our nation the suggestion that we strive to arrive at humanity by the method of brutality.

Hitlerism and Social Democracy (1934)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karl Kautsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.