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The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky is a 1918 political pamphlet written by Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. In this polemical text, Lenin launches a fierce critique of Karl Kautsky, a prominent Marxist theorist who opposed the Bolshevik seizure of power. The work defends the establishment of Soviet governance and argues for the necessity of the dictatorship of the proletariat over bourgeois parliamentary democracy.
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What is The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky about?
It is Lenin's 1918 polemical critique of Karl Kautsky's interpretation of Marxism and the proletarian state. Lenin argues that Kautsky had abandoned revolutionary Marxist principles.
Who was Karl Kautsky criticizing in the pamphlet's background?
Kautsky had written The Dictatorship of the Proletariat in 1918, opposing the Bolshevik understanding of revolutionary dictatorship. Lenin's pamphlet responds directly to that work.
What political argument does Lenin make in the pamphlet?
Lenin defends the power of workers' Soviets and the dictatorship of the proletariat against liberal parliamentary democracy. He presents the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 as a practical test of those ideas.
When did Lenin write The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky?
Lenin wrote it in October and November 1918. An English edition appeared in 1920, after the original Russian pamphlet had circulated.
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