Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism / / Karl Kautsky ; Edited by Ben Lewis.

Once deemed ‘the pope of Marxism’, 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. However, during the twentieth century a constellation of historical factors ensured that his ideas were gradu...

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Superior document:Historical Materialism Book Series ; 196
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Historical Materialism Book Series ; 196.
Physical Description:1 online resource (366 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Karl Kautsky’s Democratic Republicanism
  • Karl Kautsky, Parliamentarism and Democracy (1893/1911)
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Introduction
  • Direct Legislation in Prehistory
  • Direct Legislation in Civilisation
  • Urban Democracy in Antiquity
  • The Representative System
  • Monarchical and Parliamentary Absolutism
  • Modern Democracy
  • Rittinghausen’s Proposal
  • Drafting Laws
  • Implementing Laws
  • Jurisprudence and the Press
  • Parliamentarism and the Parties in England
  • Parliamentarism and the Working Classes
  • Direct Legislation by the People and the Class Struggle
  • Karl Kautsky, The Republic and Social Democracy in France (1905)
  • Clarifying the Dispute
  • The American Republic
  • The First Republic
  • The Second Republic and the Socialists
  • The Second Empire and the Paris Commune
  • The Constitution of the Third Republic
  • The Bourgeois Republicans at Work
  • Socialism in the Third Republic
  • Karl Kautsky, The Development of a Marxist (1924)
  • Back Matter
  • Synoptic Overview of the Drafts of the Erfurt Programme (1891)
  • Bibliography
  • Index.