Lenin’s Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky, published in 1918, is discussed in this webinar. Karl Kautsky, the leader of the Second International, wrote a pamphlet titled The Dictatorship of the Proletariat in which he criticized soviet socialism and the Bolshevik leaders. In Proletarian Revolution, Lenin responds to Kautsky, accusing him of abandoning Marxism. The heart of this work is the controversy over the nature of the state and the difference between bourgeois, capitalist democracy and working-class democracy.
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