[Marxism] "The Activist": Jason Schulman on Kautsky and Revolutionary Strategy

[Einde O'Callaghan]

Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
> Kautsky was also an apologist for imperialism.  Who cares?  If someone is
> trying to take parts of his thought, point out his shortcomings and apply it
> to tasks for socialists in America today.  Why would any of that matter? Why
> does everything have to be seen through a 1917-paradigm?


It's not so much a 1917-paradigm - it's more a question of why should we 
make the same mistakes over and over again. Marxists try to learn from 
history. Kautsky's trajectory was a tragedy, rooted in certain 
fundamental weaknesses in his theory - a 21st century retread would be 
more a farce.

Einde O'Callaghan