Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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KAUTSKY 1910 AND 1912

KAUTSKY, “THE COPENHAGEN CONGRESS”

Die Neue Zeit, 1910 (28, 2) (August 26, 1910). K. Kautsky, “The Copenhagen Congress”

 p. 776: “In a war between Germany and
England, the issue will not be one of democracy.
but of world domination, i.e., of exploitation
of the world. That is not an issue on which
Social-Democrats should side with the exploiters
of their nation” (and farther on (as well as
earlier) directly opposes Hyndman).
N.B.

Compare Kautsky in XXIII, 2 (on patriotism and war).[1]

KAUTSKY, “ONCE MORE ON DISARMAMENT”

K. Kautsky, 1912 (30, 2), September 6, 1912, article “Once More on Disarmament”, p. 851:

!!
ha-ha!!!
 “The starting point of the idea and name of
imperialism—the uniting of all the component
parts of British possessions into a closed giant
state, an empire—this starting point has receded
wholly into the background in the last few
years and can be regarded practically as aban-
doned.”

 pp. 850-51: imperialism is not a “natural, necessary
endeavour” of capital to expand, etc., but merely a
“special method”—namely: force.

Notes

[1] See pp. 617-18 of this volume.—Ed.


BÜRKLI, “DEMOCRATISATION OF OUR ARMY SYSTEM” | KAUTSKY ON RELIGION

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