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Marx, Revolution, and Social Democracy (Hardcover)
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Marx, Revolution, and Social Democracy (Hardcover)
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Many people think Marx a totalitarian and Soviet Marxism the
predictable outcome of his thought. If one shows them the
texts-proves to them that Marx was a radical democrat-they often
flip and think him utopian. Totalitarian or utopian-for many those
seem to be the alternatives. How might one combat this completely
mistaken image? To establish the connection between Marx and social
democracy, philosopher Philip J. Kain argues four main points.
First, economy if markets are controlled to eliminate alienation,
socialist society for Marx is compatible with a market. Second,
markets can be controlled democratically. Third, Marx had a theory
of revolution compatible with a democratic electoral movement
engaged in by a social democratic party. And fourth, from the late
1860s on, Marx and Engels worked with the German Social Democratic
Party of Liebknecht, Bebel, Bernstein, and Kautsky-which eventually
became the largest party in Germany and the largest socialist party
in the world. If social democracy is a true expression of Marxism,
then Marx cannot be called a totalitarian. There is nothing
remotely totalitarian about social democracy. Nor is it utopian. It
exists all over Western Europe. Moreover, social democratic parties
have always opposed the undemocratic tactics of Soviet Marxism.
Drawing on these four points, Kain argues against the depiction of
Marx as either utopian or totalitarian, and instead makes a case
for Marx as a social democrat, whose strongest legacy is found in
Western Europe.
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