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“... not the best informed Marxist on earth?
The Kautsky Resolution*
Kautskys resolution, which has since become famousor
infamous, according to the viewpoint of ordinary mortals
did not solve anything, and everyone was free to construe the
same to his own liking. The Russian Socialist paper Iskra
called it for that reason the caoutchouc resolution. The
resolution read:
In a modern democratic State the conquest of the public
povyer by the proletariat cannot be the result of a coup de
main; it must be the result of a long and painful work of pro-
letarian organization on the economic and political fields, of
the physical and moral regeneracy of the laboring class, and of
the gradual conquest of municipalities and legislative assem-
blies.
But in countries where the governmental power is cen-
tralized, it cannot be conquered fragmentarily.
The accession of an isolated Socialist to a capitalist gov-
ernment cannot be considered as the normal beginning of the
conquest of...”
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