Karl Kautsky Philosopher

Karl Johann Kautsky (October 16, 1854 – October 17, 1938) was a Czech-German philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician. Kautsky was recognized as among the most authoritative promulgators of Orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895 until the coming of World War I in 1914 and was called by some the "Pope of Marxism." Following the war, Kautsky was an outspoken critic of the Bolshevik Revolution and its excesses, engaging in polemics with V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky on the nature of the Soviet state.

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Birth date	October 16, 1854
Birth place	Prague , Austrian Empire
Date of death	October 17, 1938
Place of death	Amsterdam , Netherlands
Era	19th-century philosophy
Main interest	Economics Political philosophy Politics History

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influenced	Joseph Stalin Konrad Lorenz Leon Trotsky Rudolf Hilferding Willy Brandt Karl Renner Max Adler (Marxist) Bruno Kreisky Otto Bauer Vladimir Lenin
influenced by	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Immanuel Kant John Stuart Mill Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Bruno Bauer Joseph Dietzgen Charles Darwin
notable idea	Evolutionary epistemology Evolution of morality Sociocultural evolution Ultra-imperialism
philosophical school	Marxism
region	German philosophy Western philosophy