Re: [Marxism] A pressing question for comrades

[Einde O'Callaghan <eindeoc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David Thorstad wrote:
> As an editor, this word has not yet cropped up, but because the "y" 
> sound is already in Kautsky's name, the addition of an "i" would seem 
> highly problematic. How would it be pronounced? With two "i" sounds ("y" 
> and "i")? That is unfelicitous, to say the least. To say that the two 
> sounds represented by the two letters would elide is only evading the 
> question. So, I would go with "Kautskyan"; or "Kautskyist"; or "Kautskyoid."


If I recall correctly the "classical" adjective was "Kautskyite" in the 
polemical slanging matches.

Einde O'Callaghan


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