Man, this was hard to watch. At first it was really fun watching her dunk on Vaush but then she segues into talking about Vietnam and Agent Orange and damn, it's hard stuff.
Man, this was hard to watch. At first it was really fun watching her dunk on Vaush but then she segues into talking about Vietnam and Agent Orange and damn, it's hard stuff.
Kautsky at least read, knew, and taught theory.
first as tragedy, then farce etc and so forth
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Lenin retained more Kautsky in him than Kautsky did tbh, people read the renegade Kautsky and think Lenin disavowed him totally but he did not. The backbone of Lenin's thought really is still Kautsky's in many ways. See Lars Lih's work on Lenin and Kautsky's relationship, or the recently (first time translated and published) Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism collection Haymarket put out. Like ideologically the strongest influence on the Bolsheviks is arguably Kautsky's section of the SPD.
I'll be honest, even after reading state and rev, I don't fully understand what Lenin's big deal with him was. I see like he wasn't strong enough against the SDP, but I'm not even sure if I'm getting that right.
Here's one article that goes over that (note I don't totally agree with Lih here, he's being a bit provocative with the article title lol, but he's right about a lot of stuff imo). Basically Lenin thought (mostly rightly) that Kautsky was abandoning positions he once held that made more tactical sense then what he switched to doing (though Kautsky's self defenses are also probably worth reading).