Karl Kautsky was an Austrian-born Marxist theorist who became the leading intellectual voice of orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895. For decades he served as the leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and of the Second International, earning the nickname the Pope of Marxism for the authority his interpretations carried until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. His influence reached beyond Germany into the Russian Empire, where figures including Vladimir Lenin treated him as the leading authority on Marxist theory.
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He became a significant figure in Marxist history as the editor of the fourth volume of Karl Marx 's economic critique of capitalism, Das Kapital, and was the leading promulgator of Orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels.
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He became a significant figure in Marxist history as the editor of the fourth volume of Karl Marx 's economic critique of capitalism, Das Kapital, and was the leading promulgator of Orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels.
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Karl Johann Kautsky (; German: [ˈkaʊtski]; 16 October 1854-17 October 1938) was an Austrian-born Marxist theorist.
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One of the most authoritative promulgators of orthodox Marxism, he was for decades the leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Second International.
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In his reception of Karl Marx, influenced by Friedrich Engels and Karl Kautsky
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