Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1918) (original) (raw)

Karl Kautsky, Die Diktatur des Proletariats, Vienna 1918.
Karl Kautsky, The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, National Labour Press 1919.
Some of the translations of Marxist terminology have been modified to bring them into line with modern Marxist usage.
Transcribed and marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.

I. The Problem

II. Democracy and the Conquest of Political Power

III. Democracy and the Ripening of the Proletariat

IV. The Effects of Democracy

V. Dictatorship

VI. Constituent Assembly and Soviet

VII. The Soviet Republic

VIII. The Object Lesson

IX. The Legacy of the Dictatorship:

(a) Agriculture
(b) Industry

X. The New Theory