Karl Kautsky
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Karl Johann Kautsky 16 October 1854 Prague, Austrian Empire |
| Died | 17 October 1938 (aged 84) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy, German philosophy |
| School | Marxism |
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Main interests
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Political philosophy, Politics, Economics, History |
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Notable ideas
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Evolutionary epistemology, social instinct, active adaption, hyperimperialism |
Karl Johann Kautsky (October 16, 1854 – October 17, 1938) was a Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician. Kautsky was recognized as among the most authoritative promulgators of Orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895 until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Following the war, Kautsky was an outspoken critic of the Bolshevik Revolution, engaging in polemics with Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky on the nature of the Soviet state.
Karl Kautsky, born in Prague of a middle class artistic family, to Johann Kautsky (a scenic designer) and his wife Minna (an actress and writer), moved with his family to Vienna at the age of seven. He studied history, philosophy and economics at the University of Vienna from 1874, and became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) in 1875. In 1880 he joined a group of German socialists in Zürich who were supported financially by Karl Höchberg, and who smuggled socialist material into the Reich at the time of the Anti-Socialist Laws (1878–1890). Influenced by Eduard Bernstein, Karl Höchberg's secretary, he became a Marxist and in 1881 visited Marx and Engels in England.
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