

Kautsky’s pamphlet, The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, recently published in Vienna (Wien, 1918, Ignaz Brand, pp. version: HTML reworked and further edited, November 2019 Transcription/HTML Markup: David Walters & Robert Cymbala Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 28, 1974, pages 227-325 Published according to the pamphlet checked with the manuscript. Lenin attached great importance to exposure of Kautsky’s opportunist views on the socialist revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat.įirst Published: 1918 in pamphlet form by Kommunist Publishers, Moscow.


Lenin began work on the book The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky at the beginning of October 1918, immediately after he had read Kautsky’s The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, which distorted and vulgarised the Marxist theory of the proletarian revolution and slandered the Soviet state.
