The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program)

For the 1891 SPD party platform by Bebel, Bernstein and Kautsky that this is a commentary on, see Erfurt Program.

The Class Struggle
AuthorKarl Kautsky, Bruno Schönlank
Original titleDas Erfurter Programme in feinem grundfahliden Theil erläutert von Karl Kautsky
TranslatorDaniel De Leon
LanguageGerman
PublisherVerlag Vorwärts
Publication date
1892
Publication placeGermany
Published in English
1894
Pages293[1]
Original text
Das Erfurter Programme in feinem grundfahliden Theil erläutert von Karl Kautsky at German Wikisource
TranslationThe Class Struggle at Wikisource
Websitehttps://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1892/erfurt/

The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) (German: Das Erfurter Programm in seinem grundsätzlichen Theil erläutert von Karl Kautsky) is an 1892 book-length work by Karl Kautsky. It was first published in Stuttgart and was the official commentary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) on their brief 1891 Erfurt Program (by Kautsky, party leader August Bebel and Eduard Bernstein). It became and is still considered the seminal (and popular) text for Orthodox Marxism and the Second International.[2]

  1. ^ Kautsky, Karl (18 February 1892). "English: The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) by Karl Kautsky". Retrieved 18 February 2024 – via Wikimedia Commons.
  2. ^ Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? in Context, Lars T. Lih, Historical Materialism 9 p.74