The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
A Polemic on Soviet Power, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, and Revolutionary MarxismBy Vladimir Lenin
Length4h 33m
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In The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky, Vladimir Lenin mounts a forceful polemic against Karl Kautsky's criticism of the Bolshevik seizure of power and the emerging Soviet state. Written in 1918, the book combines political argument, close engagement with Marxist texts, and sharply prosecutorial rhetoric. Lenin distinguishes parliamentary democracy from what he calls proletarian democracy, defending the dictatorship of the proletariat, revolutionary coercion, and the dissolution of bourgeois political institutions as necessary stages in class struggle. The work belongs to the tradition of Marxist theoretical controversy, yet its immediate interventions in the Russian Revolution give it the urgency of a political pamphlet rather than an abstract treatise. Lenin wrote amid civil war, international hostility, and intense debate within the European socialist movement. Kautsky, once regarded as a leading interpreter of Marx, had condemned Bolshevik methods as incompatible with democratic socialism. Lenin's response reflects both his long-standing opposition to reformist gradualism and his conviction that the experience of 1917 demanded a decisive rethinking of inherited socialist categories. His analysis also reveals the pressures and assumptions shaping early Soviet political thought. This book is recommended to readers seeking a primary text for understanding Bolshevik ideology, the Marxist debate over democracy and revolution, and the intellectual origins of Soviet authoritarianism. It is most valuable when read critically, alongside Kautsky and contemporary historical scholarship, as both a theoretical defense and a revealing document of revolutionary power.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length4 hrs 33 mins
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Publish dateDec 3, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare (Annotated)
2Titlepage
3Preface
4How Kautsky Turned Marx Into A Common Liberal
5Bourgeois And Proletarian Democracy
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6Can There Be Equality Between the Exploited and the Exploiter?
7The Soviets Dare Not Become State Organisations
8The Constituent Assembly And The Soviet Republic
9The Soviet Constitution
10What Is Internationalism?
11Subservience To The Bourgeoisie In The Guise of “Economic Analysis”
12Appendix I. Theses on the Constituent Assembly
13Appendix II. Vandervelde's New Book on the State
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