The Revolutionary Karl Kautsky with Ben Lewis

Parker and Alex have a conversation with the editor and translator of Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism  (Haymarket, 2020) on the legacy of Karl Kautsky before he turned renegade. They discuss the convergence of various conflicting political views, from ‘Leninists’ to Social Democrats and Cold War Warriors, into what Ben Lewis calls in his book a “peculiar consensus” that fundamentally misrepresents the historical figure of Kautsky.

Please support Ben Lewis’s work Marxism Translated on Patreon as he strives to bring classical texts of German Marxism to an English audience for a first time.

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