Talk:Karl Kautsky
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[edit] The sentence I removed
"Of course, Lenin would agree with this assessment, as he would point to the class nature of the dictatorship: ie. the dictatorship of the proletariat and poor peasantry versus the dictatorship of the landowners and capitalists."
Not only is this speculative, it is in violation of WP:NPOV as it asserts that had Lenin made such a reply it would have been correct. The "class nature" of the Soviet state is by no means universally agreed upon. Madashell 21:02, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] RE: Organizations and people who predicted the collapse of the USSR
I added Karl Kautsky to [[Category:Organizations and people who predicted the collapse of the USSR]] because of this reference, which talks about people who felt the Soviet Union would collapse:
Shortly after the (Soviet) revolution , Bertrand Russell and Rosa Luxemburg, supporters of revolution second to none, wrote with deep regret that it was impossible that the Bolsheviks would succeed in building the kind of society they professed to believe in. Kautsky and the Mensheviks predicted even more emphatically that the whole experiment would end in disaster.
Laqueur, Walter (1996). The Dream that Failed : Reflections on the Soviet Union. USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0195102827. p. 188
Signed:Travb 13:25, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The date of birth
I have changed the birth date from October 18th to October 16th. There are several sources indicating it was a mistake. See, for example, [1], [2], [[3]]. (Zdravko mk 12:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC))
