Re: Re: Re: US Consumer Confidence index surges

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:23 AM 3/28/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >It seems to me that both Kautsky's "evolutionary socialism" &
> >Luxemburg's theory of imperialism have been incorrect, though
> >Kautsky's is more fundamentally wrong than Luxemburg's (if it makes
> >sense to evaluate degrees of errors).
> >
> >Yoshie
>
> I wasn't aware that Kautsky spoke about evolutionary socialism. In fact, he
> was on the same side as Luxemburg in the fight against Bernstein, who did
> write "Evolutionary Socialism"....

The point has been made by more than one historians that one of the reasons
why Bernstein made such a splash was that he vocalized the
evolutionary-type socialism that was implicit in the "Marxist orthodoxy" at
the time, including that of the "Pope of Marxism" (Kautsky). In many ways,
in other words, Kautsky was an evolutionary socialist without knowing it.
Bringing the "shameful secret" to the fore shook things up.

Of course, then just as now, Marxists have had a hard time being
revolutionaries in a non-revolutionary period.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine