“He who thinks that the working class can be assured, prosperity and freedom by organizing economic life on a militaristic basis is wrong. No less erroneous is it to strive for a dictatorship for the purpose of crushing the enemy and establishing the working class in a privileged position in the state and society while reducing the rest of the population to the position of pariahs as a means of ultimately establishing socialist equality for all. But most objectionable of all would be to attempt to build a regime of humanity upon the basis of brutality, seeing that without the former no true Socialist commonwealth can exist. For this commonwealth must represent the realization of the slogan of the French Revolution, which was “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.” ViolenceHumanismSocialismNon ViolenceAuthoritarianismCommon Good Book:Social Democracy Versus Communism Source: Social Democracy Versus Communism
“True virtue consists in the care for the common weal, it can only flourish where the commonwealth at the same time advances the interests of the individual, where he cannot damage the commonwealth without damaging himself.” PhilosophyPoliticsEthicsCapitalismEconomicsSocialismMarxismCommon Good Book:Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History Source: Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History
“Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.” DemocracySocialismUnthinkable Book:Karl Kautsky: Marxism, Revolution, and Democracy Source: Karl Kautsky: Marxism, Revolution, and Democracy
“The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.” DoeGovernmentClassCapitalistRuling Author:Karl Kautsky
“The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.” FirstsWarExposingFalsity Author:Karl Kautsky