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23 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
1) "To Comrades of the Spartacus League" -- Leon Trotsky (3/9/19) Excerpts

"Kautsky understood the proletariat, having seized revolutionary power, would not stake the fate of the Revolution upon the fleeting moods of the least conscious & still unawakened masses of the moment...
2) " ... but would, on the contrary, transform the entire state power concentrated in its hands into a mighty apparatus of enlightenment and organization of the most backward and most ignorant peasant masses.
3) "But Kautsky refused to issue a certificate of baptism to the Russian Revolution because it was not legally certified by the political department of bourgeois democracy. An astonishing fact! What incredible debasement of Marxism!"
4) Karl Kautsky (1854-1938), a Czech-Austrian philosopher, was the most authoritative promulgator of Orthodox Marxism. Following WWI, Kautsky criticized the manner in which Bolsheviks seized power in Russia & characterized their Dictatorship of the Proletariat as "illegitimate."
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