Kautsky Saw Despotism Incompatible to Socialism
SOLLMAN, WILHELM
Kautsky Saw Despotism Incompatible to Socialism by WILHELM SOLLMAN Reiektminitter of the Interior in Both Streteman (a?furis r" is difficult for an American Socialist to ima*- : , ing what...
...He witnessed the development and defeat of European Social Democracy...
...Democracy in Austria was already destroyed, but under Schuschnigg some law still ruled ia Austria...
...All his thinking was based on the Communist Manifesto...
...6, st 11 a..as...
...I came as a German refugee...
...From his youth as an aoponeiu oi Czarist tyranny to the day of his untimely death, unlabored incessantly for a world free from tyranny, hatred and brutalitv...
...That is the last teaching of our great teacher, Karl Kautsky...
...Karl Kautsky and Eduard Bernstein founded the Independent Socialist Party against the Majority Social Democratic Party (Bert and Sche«demanti) in the first mouths of Ac great war...
...But it was his holy zeal for the spirit of Socialism which may have made him unjust and sometimes bitter...
...There is nothing to blame and nothing to defend...
...August Claessens will speak on "The Results of the Election" at 254 East 94th St., Brooklyn, on Nov...
...His books on Thomas Moore, the Chrestian Utopian Socialist, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, and on the Origin of Christianity, are masterpieces of analysis by the method of historical materialism...
...The memory of decades of Socialist struggle and Socialist education is deeply moved by this message There is not one real Social Democrat of the past years who has not been influenced by articles and books by Kautsky...
...H ecould not do it because be was a genuine Social Democrat...
...It is his testament to international Socialism and it testifies to -the high culture of Socialism and its most powerful interpreter after Marx and Engels: Karl Kautsky...
...There are peric-is in Karl Kautsky's life, efp^ci-ilij before the World War, when, for example, as the editor of the scientific periodical "Neue Zeit," he had not very agreeable literary feuds with old Socialist friends like Eduard Bernstein...
...Washington Stat* William R. Snow, member of the SJXF...
...It would have been unwise to reject them without profound examination...
...The war and the breakdown of international Socialism in 1914 was the _ _ . . _ first and perhaps deepest Karl Kant sky disappointment for him...
...Bat not for one moment did be dose* the final victory of Socialist democracy...
...New York City Several hundred Social Democrats attended the memorial meeting last Sunday afternoon in the Debs Auditorium to pay tribute to the memory of Karl Kautsky, the last of the great Marxists...
...Kautsky Saw Despotism Incompatible to Socialism by WILHELM SOLLMAN Reiektminitter of the Interior in Both Streteman (a?furis r" is difficult for an American Socialist to ima*- : , ing what it means to a European Socialist to pet a telegram saying...
...He, as we all, could not foresee the immense stream of cruelty, of stupidity, of hatred, of prejudices, of superstition in our time...
...his life...
...He was writing his most enlightening work fen War and Democracy, published some months ago in German...
...16 on account of the campaign and elections...
...This movement and the best part of German culture were destroyed by barbarian powers in the war and after the war, until Fascism was triumphant...
...The The Bolshevist revolution in Russia was the second, and the victorious march of Fascism in Italy and Central Europe was the dark shadow of the last years of Kautsky's life...
...and a popular Socialist propagandist and who is now helpless from a stroke, had little or no employment for a number of years other than a poorly-paid WPA job...
...Ruby Herman, 1216 & 65th St., Seattle, Wash...
...He was one of those rare men .who are not depressed by defeats and disappointments...
...I F was, as we called it, an orthodox Marxist...
...e * * • The City Central Committee usually meets on the first Wednesday of the month, but the November meeting is postponed to Nov...
...Karl Kautsky was a representative of the highest type of German culture...
...We should recall the event that reconciled the orthodox Marxian Karl Kautsky with the Revisionist Eduard Bernstein: the war...
...activities his loss is irreparable...
...Hedwig Wachenheim, Nathan Chan in and Lena Morrow Lewis eloquently described the life and labor of Kautsky and tendered warm tribute to his beautiful character and idealism...
...Even if in later years we became critical to• wards some of his doctrines, we still read ht« every tine with attention and reverence...
...His movement, German Social Democracy, was the movement of German culture...
...I know from world-famous Christians that they have read these books byKarl Kautsky with the highest profit...
...Has like Kautsky were prophets of Socialist faith...
...KARL KAUTSKY never atada any csacssaissi towards Bolshevism, as he never made any concession towards Fascism...
...But did he despair...
...I saw him for the last time in his apartment in Vienna in 1935...
...There both found each other on the basis of Socialist culture, which is international understanding against international murder by barbarian weapons...
...The great Marxian author was unmolested by Schuschnigg's police...
...Karl Kautsky was a fighter al...
...Michigan California Michigan Social Democrats are Social Democrats and Jewish actively supporting the newly or- Socialist Verband members of Los tiniied American Labor Party in Angeles are carrying on a drive1 SSbsgar...
...There is hope for his recovery, bat in the meantime his family is in distress...
...S.D.F...
...It was for the rn a total ethicai world outlook and, in the opinion of Kautsky, Socialism must be based on freedom and democracy...
...Therefore his strong fight against Bolshevism...
...Such a temperament is not always just...
...Auspices, East Flatbush Branch 2, Jewish Socialist Verband...
...Kautsky cued yesterday...
...His method of analysis was historical materialism...
...To those who knw him and his constructive...
...Send clothes, household articles, bric-a-brac, odds and ends —merchandise, new or old—anything salable, to the City Office, 7 East 15th St., Room 505, for the Rummage Sale to be held during this month Jby the Women's Committee, S.D.F...
...Certsinly, it is impossible to be victors in this fight for Socialism in this year 1938, but it is possible to raise oar head and to show the world that we Socialists do not capitulate before the dark powers...
...Within recent years they have iawng its state-wide candidates outgrown the building which they „Ttwo Social Democrats, John own, which is occupied by the Pmainei for State Treasurer, and Workmen's Circle as well...
...Let us fight faithfully for Socialism until the end of our life, as Kautsky did...
...Leo Meltzer, National Executive Secretary...
...But Karl Kautsky, because of his GermanAustrian origin, his faith in the future of a Socialist Democracy, his trust in the importance of education, and his belief in free organisations of workers for the class struggle, could not be convinced that Socialism would grow out of oppression of all other Socialist groups by a ruling" Socialist or Communist clique...
...Bat we mast remember the saying that every human being must go his wsy in the path he started on...
...HELP...
...to which Labor's Non- for a new center of Socialist activipSsan League of Michigan is ties in that city, taring financial support...
...But I still fed what I felt 24 year, ago: that the comrades who declined to make any compromise with war policy had Socialist reasons of enormous ethical Importance for their viewpoint...
...Any friends and comrades who can help him financially are urged to send contributions to Mrs...
...Theatre Party, Thursday, Dec...
...He died faithful to his and our ideas...
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...He believed in free Socialist research and free Socialist and democratic discussion in civilised methods...
...4t * * The Meyer London Branch will run a Theatre Party—"Pins and Needles"—Thursday, Nov...
...Bela Low, Algernon Lee, Abraham Cahan, Dr...
...At that ume I favored Ebert and Scheidemann . against Kautsky - and "Bernstein for reasons which I cannot expound in this short article...
...SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION AT WORK leaders in Localities in Which S41.F...
...V CHAlMrr VL?DECK *' SOCIAL DEMOCRACY has lost an untiring champion in the passing of B. Charney Vladeck...
...17, for the benefit of the branch and the National and City Office Drive...
...The entire house, the Public Theatre, 4th St...
...ITAKL KAUTSKY^ hero in the spiritual field, **¦ lived through all these decades...
...Today we may ask whether he and German Social Democracy, strongly influenced by his ideas, were not too idealistic, too pacifistic...
...S. Ingerman...
...His life and death prove that it is possible to stand for democratic Socialism in this wave of dictatorships of all types...
...2x Wagman for Auditor General,- The newly organized Ladies' So„2 s third, Henry Glicman, is cialist Club is conducting a series Xp State Secretary...
...The Russian Bolshevists sad the international Communists have scolded and slandered the old * Marxian for his writings against the terroristic methods of Bolshevism and its persecution of Russian Social Democrata...
...Max Brauer, former Mayor of Altona, Germany, will be the principal speaker...
...too "weak," as many people put it...
...He was a great scientist, u s i n g important thoughts and experiences as the bases if his theories...
...He, like all of us, made many mistakes in details...
...Branches Do Not Now Exist Hay Obtain Information, Charter Blanks Membership Application*, . Stc by Addressing: Nafl Office, S.D.F„gl4 Alhee Bldg^Waah^D.c...
...and Second Ave., has been taken for a popular Jewish comedy with a well-known cast...
...of functions and shows signs of being of real help in the building drive and to the local movement in generalThe Social Democratic Federation of Cook County has arranged a memorial meeting in honor of Karl Kautsky in the Labor Lyceum, Ogden and Kedzie Aves., Chicago, on Sunday, Nov...
...Class struggle against the class society for a classless" society on an international basis was matter and content of his life...
...The last three decades of his life were full of disillusionment...
...That means that every man and every movement lives and dies in its own character, which is inherited from ancestors...
...This is historical fate...
...For them Soeis Ham always has been much more than a political and economic doctrine...
...He was a master jn this method not only in the political field of our time and the Nineteenth Century...
Vol. 21 • November 1938 • No. 45
