Karl Kautsky and the Socialist Revolution 1880-1938 by Salvadori, Massimo -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Halftitle Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface I. The Guarantees of History

II. The Fight against Revisionism

III. 1905: The Radicalization of Kautsky

IV. ‘The Road to Power’

V. The Genesis of Kautsky’s ‘Centrism’

1. Two Strategies for Prussia in 1910 2. The 1912 Elections and the ‘New Liberalism’ 3. The Defence of the Parliamentary Road - Against Pannekoek 4. The Debate on Imperialism in the SPD

VI. World War, Imperialism, the Russian Revolution

1. The Hypothesis of ‘Ultra-Imperialism’ 2. The Birth of the USPD 3. For a ‘Peace without Annexations’ 4. Russia, 1917: ‘Democracy First, Then Socialism’

VII. The German Revolution and the Struggle against Spartacism

1. The Nature of Socialization and the Role of the Councils 2. For the Unity of Social Democracy

VIII. The Ideological Crusade against Bolshevism

1. The ‘Renegade’ Kautsky? 2. Democracy and Socialism 3. The Model of the Commune and the Soviet State 4. The Inevitable Failure of the Third International 5. Stalinism as Counter-Revolution

IX. The Class Character of the USSR

1. The Polemic with Bauer, Adler, Dan and Abramovich 2. Against the Popular Fronts

X. Proletarian ‘Dictatorship’ or Proletarian ‘Rule’?

1. The Question of ‘Coalition Government’ 2. The World War and the Roots of Counter-Revolution 3. The Heidelberg Programme of the SPD

XI. Fascism and Democracy

1. Industrial Society, Socialism and Fascism 2. 1929: the Terminal Crisis of Capitalism? 3. The Fascist ‘Interlude’ and the Way Forward 4. The Invincibility of Democracy

Biographical Note Bibliographical Note Index