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Ideologies / Classical Marxist / Karl Kautsky
Karl Kautsky — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1854–1938 · Germany · Theorist

Karl Kautsky

The pope of Marxism

Orthodoxy by democratic road.

Reformist Classical Marxist →
Economic−90
SocialistMarket
Governance−42
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+50
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The leading Marxist theorist of the Second International, whose insistence that socialism must come democratically made him Lenin's great antagonist on the left.

social

Progressive secular modernist.

economic

Common ownership through the victory of a mass workers' party.

governance

Insisted socialism and democracy were inseparable — clashed with Lenin.

Notable for
  • Led Second-International Marxism
  • 'The Dictatorship of the Proletariat' (anti-Lenin)
  • Orthodox Marxist theory
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