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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.

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birth date
1854-10-16
birth place
Prague, Austrian Empire
death date
1938-10-17
death place
Amsterdam, Netherlands
era
19th-century philosophy
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
main interest
Economics, Political philosophy, Politics, History
notableIdea
Evolutionary epistemology, Evolution of morality, Sociocultural evolution, Ultra-imperialism
philosophicalSchool
Marxism
region
German philosophy, Western philosophy

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