Why can’t any government in the world aim to tax ultra rich more whilst making easier for small to medium large businesses to thrive. And policies on property supply rather than property buyers like all sorts of first time buyers programs.
Why are only same old policies keep being peddled when the world is still going to shit?
That doesn’t involve reducing the government size and budget entirely or subscribing to any extreme left or right?
State and Rev also has some of Lenin’s best one liner quips ever written, definitely recommend that one. I should probably give it a second reading, it’s a real banger of a book.
Lenin’s uncontrollable urge to take any chance possible to shit on Kautsky will always make me laugh, lmao. For State and Rev in particular, (don’t laugh!) is legendary
Keeping with Marx’s proud tradition of dunking on Proudhon for an entire book then dunking on him whenever he could later too.
My first interaction with that text was Marx Madness podcast, they had plenty of love for Kautsky dunking as well.
He’s incredibly easy to dunk on, to be fair
I’ve never read Kautsky, so I’ll have to take Lenin at his word since he was the first author to successfully lead a socialist revolution.
Kautsky does have some very good books to his name from before he became social imperialist that are worth reading even today like his summary of 1st book of Capital* or his history of early christianity.
*except the one chapter he allowed Bernstein of all people to write, but it’s useful too, shows how Bernstein was clueless hack even then.
Lenin does a pretty good job elaborating on Kautsky’s mistakes.