By Karl Kautsky
ISBN-10: 1853050237
ISBN-13: 9781853050237
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Notes 1. 2 3. 4 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. V. I. Lenin, Collected Works (Moscow, 1977) vol. 4, p. 94. g. 1. V. Stalin 'On Dialectical and Historical Materialism' in his History of the Soviet Communist Party, first published in 1938. G. Lichtheim, Marxism: A Historical and Critical Study (London, 1961). Lenin, Collected Works, vol 3, p. 174. , vol. 10, p. 177 (translation of the first sentence amended on the basis of the Russian original). , vol. 16, p. 445 (the expression 'squandering of labour' is used in this translation).
This is the nub of the problem which is presently Author's Introduction 11 confronting Social Democracy in the form of the agrarian question. Is it necessary to revise the collective ideal, based on the large establishment - and the programme founded on this - in the face of the peasantry? And if the conclusion is reached that there is no tendency towards the large establishment in agrarian development and that the large establishment is by no means universally the highest form of economic organisation, then one arrives at the crucial question: Should we be democratic in the sense that we embrace any and every small farm and change our programme, distance ourselves from the collectivist goal - or shall we remain proletarian, retain the collectivist ideal and goal, and exclude these other elements from our movement?
It remains true that Kautsky's general conception of capitalist development, of historical materialism, was substantively reductionist, a deterministic and linear vision in which the economic logic of capital accumulation moved inexorably to the final goal of socialism. Human agency and questions about organised political intervention were devalued in that vision, for politics, ideology and culture were merely epiphenomenal superstructures that were but a reflection of the economic base whose logic unfolds with inevitable necessity.