Before the Revisionist Controversy (RLE Marxism)

Download or read book Before the Revisionist Controversy (RLE Marxism) written by H. Kendall Rogers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, first published in 1992, the author examines the polemic fought by German Social-Democratic Party leaders and intellectuals Karl Kautsky and Eduard Bernstein against what they perceived to be misunderstandings of Marxism propagated by members of the Social-Democratic Federation (SDF) in England and by the socialist leader Wilhelm Liebknecht in Germany. The debate raised basic questions of socialist theory, including whether the program of Marx and Engels called for scholarly study, parliamentary democracy, and gradual social evolution, or for Utopian speculation, economic collapse, and violent rebellion.