The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program)

The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (German: Das Erfurter Programme in feinem grundfahliden Theil erlautert von Karl Kautsky) is an 1892 book-length work by Karl Kautsky. It was first published in Stuttgart and was the official commentary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) on their brief 1891 Erfurt Program (by Kautsky, party leader August Bebel and Eduard Bernstein). It became and is still considered the seminal (and popular) text for Orthodox Marxism and the Second International.[2]

The Class Struggle
AuthorKarl Kautsky
Original titleDas Erfurter Programme in feinem grundfahliden Theil erlautert von Karl Kautsky
TranslatorDaniel De Leon
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
Publication date
1892
Published in English
1899
Pages66[1]
Websitehttps://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1892/erfurt/index.htm

History

Eduard Bernstein is acknowledged in the first edition preface as having given advice and critical review.[3] Historian Donald Sassoon wrote it “became one of the most widely read texts of socialist activists throughout Europe” and Kautsky's commentary “was translated into sixteen languages before 1914 and became the accepted popular summa of Marxism” around the world.[4] It was first translated into English by Daniel De Leon in 1899 and an adaption published in The People (Socialist Labor Party newspaper) in New York. In 1894, Lenin translated it into Russian.[5]

20th Century

In 1904, it was republished in German as German: Der Klassenkampf in der Sozialdemokratie. The eighth German edition from 1907[6] was translated by William Bohn and published in 1910 by Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company in Chicago. In 1911, Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5 (from the 1899 translations by Daniel De Leon) were published in four SLP pamphlets, The Working Class, The Capitalist Class, The Class Struggle and The Socialist Republic (the latter from Chapter 4 The Commonwealth of the Future).[7] Dietz Verlag (Berlin) reprinted it in German in 1965.[8] In 1971 another English version was published by W. W. Norton & Company.[9]

21st Century

Author Lars T. Lih has coined the term Erfurtianism to describe the political views put forward in Kautsky's book.[10]

Chapters
  1. The Passing of Small Production
  2. The Proletariat
  3. The Capitalist Class
  4. The Commonwealth of the Future
  5. The Class Struggle

References
  1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Das_Erfurter_Programm_in_feinem_grundfahlichen_theil_erl%C3%A4utert_von_Karl_Kautsky.pdf
  2. Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? in Context, Lars T. Lih, Historical Materialism 9 p.74
  3. "Karl Kautsky: Das Erfurter Programm (Vorwort zur 1. Auflage)". marxists.org. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  4. "The origin of Rosa Luxemburg's slogan 'socialism or barbarism'". climateandcapitalism.com. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  5. Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? in Context, Lars T. Lih, Historical Materialism 9 p.74
  6. https://archive.org/details/classstruggleerf0000kaut/page/n7/mode/2up Publishers Note
  7. "Karl Kautsky: Capitalist Class (Introductory)". marxists.org. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  8. "Karl Kautsky: Das Erfurter Programm (Vorrede zur 5. Auflage)". marxists.org. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  9. "The class struggle (Erfurt program) : Kautsky, Karl, 1854-1938 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive". archive.org. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  10. "VI Lenin and the influence of Kautsky - Weekly Worker". weeklyworker.co.uk.
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