World War or Socialism (Kautsky 1911)

  1. Noa Rodman
    Noa Rodman
    This is the name of a section towards the end of Kautsky's work "Handelspolitik und Sozialdemokratie" 2nd edition 1911, 98 p., read it online: hdl.handle.net/10622/ARCH00712%2E2104?locatt=viewdf

    The first edition dates from 1901. Kautsky's preface to Russian edition 1906 is also online (but in handwriting).

    I learned of this book only now, through an article on world market that I happen to be translating by Dashkovskij from the journal PZM.

    It's an important book to get Kautsky's analysis of imperalism and his stance during this period.
  2. Tower of Bebel
    Tower of Bebel
    World War or Socialism itself (part d) seems to be a mere expansion of the "barbarism or socialism" idea. Capitalist policies lead to wars, proletarian policies would not; capitalism needs profit, socialism needs to fullfillments of one's needs, capitalism leads to competition between exporting and importing nations; socialism would do away with this distinction.
  3. Noa Rodman
    Noa Rodman
    here's the translation; http://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/07/1...world-economy/
    In a bit wider column also here (the footnote on Kautsky still wrongly appears partly in the text):
    https://libcom.org/library/towards-t...ak-dashkovskij

    The thing for me to note was that here's an example in 1911 of Kautsky's revolutionary perspective (while the usual claim is that he turned passive/rightwards after 1909.)

    I have another text from PZM which I plan to translate. It is a 40 page article exposing Kautsky/centrism.
  4. Noa Rodman
    Noa Rodman
    Bebel also gets attacked in it.