NEW REFORMISM AND THE REVIVAL OF KARL KAUTSKY: the renegade's revenge

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Karl Kautsky -- 1 On the Left -- 2 In the Center -- 3 On the Right -- Part II The Anti-Kautskyians -- 4 Rosa Luxemburg -- 5 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- 6 Leon Trotsky -- Part III Neo-Kautskyism -- 7 Lars Lih -- 8 The Epigones: Right and Left -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

This text offers an authoritative historiography of German socialist theorist Karl Kautsky and his impact on debates about the Russian Revolution and the contemporary left. Known as the Pope of Marxism, Douglas Greene examines the totality of Kautsky's political career and dissects the fundamental opportunism and passive radicalism that defined his Marxism. He later examines the most substantive Marxist critics of Kautsky, namely Rosa Luxemburg, V. I. Lenin, and Leon Trotsky, while offering a critical assessment of the work produced by scholars and activists, Lars Lih, Eric Blanc, and Mike Mcnair, seeking to revive Kautsky. The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky is an important addition to scholarship on the subject and a valuable resource for those interested in the Russian Revolution, German politics, socialism, Marxism, and contemporary left-wing debates.

This book examines the totality of Kautskys political career and dissects the fundamental opportunism and passive radicalism that defined his Marxism, while also offering a critical assessment of the work produced by scholars and activists seeking to revive Kautsky