Ideas of Karl Kautsky & Benito Mussolini

Karl Kautsky (1854-1938) and Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) were at polar opposites of the ideological spectrum, with Kautsky espousing Marxist doctrine for most of his life and Mussolini espousing fascism for most of his political life. Mussolini, of course, had the higher profile on the international stage, but the culture in which his and Kautsky's ideas emerged--in the environment of both European capitalistic industrialism and modern social revolution--was almost exactly contemporary.

Kautsky's socialism was connected to his relationship with Marx and Engels, with whom he was exactly contemporary and of whom he was a principal disciple. He made his career in Austria, where he founded Die Neue Zeit, (The New Spirit), a leading socialist periodical. His radicalism positioned him as a pacifist during World War I, which he regarded as

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n published articles favorable more to social reform than to the doctrine of social revolution in orthodox Marxism. Revisionism, as it was called, also found expression in what was termed economism, or an emphasis in Russia on economic reform for the masses vis-a-vis the bourgeoisie as a precondition for absolute political challenge to the tsarist regime. The orthodox line, adumbrated by Kautsky in Europe and Lenin as chief figure of Russian Social Democrats in exile until the 1917 revolution, favored political and economic revolution alike, as Kautsky's The Class Struggle demonstrated: The struggle of the working-class against capitalist exploitation is necessarily a political struggle. The working-class cannot develop its economic organization and wage its economic battles without political rights. It cannot accomplish the transfer of the means of production to the community as a whole without first having come into possession of political power (Kautsky, 1971, p. 159). Kautsky, who was instrumental in seeing Marx translated throughout Europe, was the most prominent Marxist in Europe, holding the preeminent orthodox view of the proletarian revolution for a socialist transformation into classless society, in the conte
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