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Marxism and Revolution - Karl Kautsky and the Russian Marxists, 1900-1924 (Hardcover)
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Marxism and Revolution - Karl Kautsky and the Russian Marxists, 1900-1924 (Hardcover)
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This book offers a new interpretation of the origins of Russian
Marxism, placing it firmly within the folds of the western European
socialist movement. Moira Donald argues that the chief theoretician
of German Marxism, Karl Kautsky, was a primary influence on Lenin
and the Russian Social Democratic Party, and that only the
revolution of 1917 severed the Bolsheviks from mainstream orthodox
Marxism. Donald contends that Lenin's thought was neither original
nor especially significant in the development of Marxism, but that
his ability lay in adapting his ideas to fit his revolutionary
strategy. She places Lenin's writings in their historical context,
showing that they were written as individual pieces, each with a
specific aim and often directed within the Party. Lenin was a
tactician rather than a thinker, says Donald, and even those areas
of his thought that seem most original - the party, the role of the
intelligentsia, and imperialism - reveal his significant debt to
Kautsky. According to Donald, Lenin was not the only Russian
Marxist to borrow ideas from Kautsky: Trotsky's theory of permanent
revolution, which was to prove crucial when it was taken up by the
Bolsheviks in 1917, was also influenced by Kautsky's thought.
Kautsky's relationship with the Russian Social Democratic Party has
been widely underestimated because of the later split between them.
Using a wide range of published and unpublished sources, Donald
reveals how important Kautsky's role was in formulating the
ideology of the Bolsheviks - the only effective revolutionary party
in the socialist movement. Moira Donald was lecturer in history in
the Department of History and Archaeology at Exeter University.
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