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Second Republic and the socialists

The second part of Karl Kautsky's 1905 work, 'Republic and social democracy', translated by Ben Lewis When the republic was proclaimed on February 24 1848, all memories of 1793 were awoken. From the outset the lower classes regarded the republic as the surety protecting their interests, as the “social republic” which would reassume the work of ...

Marx, Proudhon and political struggle

James Tansey critiques Ian McKay’s Property is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology “...the triumph of opportunism within Italy and the Communist International... show[ed] that the doctrine of self-sufficient factory councils (with their own little self-contained revolutions), was a very dangerous starting point; as indeed was the illusion that communist victory was assured as soon as individual ...