Ben Lewis introduces another excerpt from his translation of Karl Kautsky's 'Republic and social democracy in France'- published in English for the first time The following text is the second part of Karl Kautsky’s 1905 work, ‘Republic and social democracy’, which was originally published as a series of seven articles in the theoretical weekly, Die Neue Zeit. ...
Both on the student left and the more generally, the 'united front' is often used as a way of justifying this or that opportunistic turn. We hear it constantly from the Socialist Workers' Party when it discusses setting up and doing work around campaigns like Unite Against Fascism (which in reality are more like popular ...
This is a talk given by Lars T Lih which has been taken from the Socialist Democracy website. In a previous interview with CS back in December Lih stated that " [Karl]Kautsky’s positive influence on Lenin does not end even in 1914". This speech explains why he thinks so. Lenin and Kautsky: The final chapter By LARS ...
Our party must be as open and democratic as the society we fight for, argues Dan Macintyre On the left you will hear much about the need for a ‘revolutionary party' or a ‘vanguard party' to organise and strengthen the working class struggle for a socialist society. Indeed, there are many groups on today's left who ...