The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) Explained

Italic Title:The Class Struggle
The Class Struggle
Author:Karl Kautsky, Bruno Schönlank
Title Orig:Das Erfurter Programme in feinem grundfahliden Theil erläutert von Karl Kautsky
Country:Germany
Language:German
Pub Date:1892
English Pub Date:1894
Pages:293[1]
Orig Lang Code:de
Native Wikisource:Das Erfurter Programme in feinem grundfahliden Theil
Wikisource:The Class Struggle
Website:https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1892/erfurt/

The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (German: Das Erfurter Programm in seinem grundsätzlichen Theil erläutert von Karl Kautsky) is an 1892 book-length work by Karl Kautsky. It was first published in Stuttgart and was the official commentary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) on their brief 1891 Erfurt Program (by Kautsky, party leader August Bebel and Eduard Bernstein). It became and is still considered the seminal (and popular) text for Orthodox Marxism and the Second International.[2]

History

Eduard Bernstein is acknowledged in the first edition preface as having given advice and critical review.[3] Historian Donald Sassoon wrote it “became one of the most widely read texts of socialist activists throughout Europe” and Kautsky's commentary “was translated into sixteen languages before 1914 and became the accepted popular summa of Marxism” around the world.[4] It was first translated into English by Daniel De Leon in 1894 and an adaption published in The People (Socialist Labor Party newspaper) in New York.

In 1894, Lenin translated it into Russian.[2] This was during his exile in Geneva.[5]

20th century

In 1904, it was republished in German as German: Der Klassenkampf in der Sozialdemokratie.The eighth German edition from 1907[6] was translated by William Bohn and published in 1910 by Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company in Chicago. In 1911, Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5 (from the 1899 translations by Daniel De Leon) were published in four SLP pamphlets, The Working Class, The Capitalist Class, The Class Struggle and The Socialist Republic (the latter from Chapter 4 The Commonwealth of the Future).[7] Dietz Verlag (Berlin) reprinted it in German in 1965.[8] In 1971 another English version was published by W. W. Norton & Company.[9]

21st century

Author Lars T. Lih coined the term Erfurtianism to describe the political views put forward in Kautsky's book.[10]

Chapters

1892 German original

  1. Der Untergang des Kleinbetriebes
  2. Das Proletariat
  3. Die Kapitalistenklasse
  4. Der Zukunftsstaat
  5. Der Klassenkampf

1894 English translation

Published separately as pamphlets of the Labor library.

1899 English translation

Published separately as pamphlets of the People library.

1910 English translation

  1. The Passing of Small Production
  2. The Proletariat
  3. The Capitalist Class
  4. The Commonwealth of the Future
  5. The Class Struggle

References

  1. Web site: English: The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) by Karl Kautsky. Karl. Kautsky. 18 February 1892. 18 February 2024. Wikimedia Commons.
  2. Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? in Context, Lars T. Lih, Historical Materialism 9 p.74
  3. Web site: Karl Kautsky: Das Erfurter Programm (Vorwort zur 1. Auflage). marxists.org. 2020-04-11.
  4. Web site: The origin of Rosa Luxemburg's slogan 'socialism or barbarism'. climateandcapitalism.com. 22 October 2014. 2020-04-11.
  5. Web site: ГПИБ | Каутский К. Основы социалдемократии : (Эрфуртская программа) : пер. с нем. - Женева, 1894. - (Социалдемократическая библиотека. Сер. 2; вып. 3)..
  6. https://archive.org/details/classstruggleerf0000kaut/page/n7/mode/2up The class struggle (Erfurt program)
  7. Web site: Karl Kautsky: Capitalist Class (Introductory). marxists.org. 2020-04-11.
  8. Web site: Karl Kautsky: Das Erfurter Programm (Vorrede zur 5. Auflage). marxists.org. 2020-04-11.
  9. Book: The class struggle (Erfurt program) : Kautsky, Karl, 1854-1938 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. archive.org. 1971. New York, Norton. 9780393005677. 2020-04-11.
  10. Web site: VI Lenin and the influence of Kautsky - Weekly Worker . weeklyworker.co.uk.
  11. Book: Kautsky . Karl . De Leon . Daniel . The Proletariat . 1894 . New York People . New York City . 17193022 . Labor library, no. 10.
  12. Book: Kautsky . Karl . De Leon . Daniel . The capitalist class . 1894 . New York People . New York City . 44584077 . Labor Library, no. 7.
  13. Book: Kautsky . Karl . De Leon . Daniel . The co-operative commonwealth . 1894 . New York People . New York City . 29099166 . Labor Library, no. 9.
  14. Book: Kautsky . Karl . De Leon . Daniel . The class struggle . 1894 . New York people . New York City . 20443052 . Labor library, no. 11..
  15. Book: Kautsky . Karl . De Leon . Daniel . The working class . 1900 . New York People . New York city . 1001345662 . People library, v. 2, no. 6.
  16. Book: Kautsky . Karl . De Leon . Daniel . The capitalist class . 1900 . New York People . New York city . 938122055 . People library, 2:7..
  17. Book: Kautsky . Karl . De Leon . Daniel . The socialist republic . 1900 . New York People . New York City . 17115436 . People Library Vol 2. No 9.
  18. Book: Kautsky . Karl . De Leon . Daniel . The class struggle . 1899 . New York People . New York City . 15583260 . Labor library, no. 4..

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