Karl Kautsky: The Labour Revolution (1924) (original) (raw)
Written: 1924.
Translated: H.J. Stenning.
Published: Ruskin House, 40 Museum Street, W.C.1.
Transcribed: Ted Crawford for marxists.org, July, 2002.
Preface to the English Edition
Chapter I: The Problem
Chapter II: The Political Revolution
I. The Middle Class Revolution
II. The Labour Revolution
(a) Democracy
(b) Forcing the Pace of the Revolution
(c) The Counter-Revolution
(d) The Policy of Coalition
III. The State of the Transitional Period
(a) Socialism and the State
(b) The Marxian Conception of the Transitional State
(c) Workers’ Wages as Ministers’ Salaries
(d) The Recall of Deputies
(e) Executive and Legislative Power
(f) Dictatorship
Chapter III: The Economic Revolution
I. Consumers and Producers
(a) Under Capitalism
(b) Under Socialism
II. The Division of the Product of Labour
III. Property and Organization
IV. The Middle Class and the Labour Revolution
(a) The Middle Class Economic Revolution
(b) The Labour Economic Revolution
(c) Confiscation or Compensation
VIII. The Forms of Socialization
(a) Socialization and Social Reform
(b) The Starting-Point of Socialization
(c) Productive Co-operation
(d) Guild Socialism
(e) The Jointly Controlled Organization
(f) Socialism and Profit
(g) The Spread of Socialization
IX. Agriculture
(a) Woods and Forests
(b) The Common Ownership of Land
(c) The Socialization of Large Estates
(d) The Socialization of Small Holdings
(e) Industry and Agriculture
X. Money
(a) Inflation
(b) The Abolition of Money
(c) Socialist Money
(d) The Banks