Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History
by Karl Kautsky
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From the preface: " The materialist conception of history is not only important because it allows us to explain history better than has been done up to now, but also because it enables us to make history better than has been hitherto done. And the latter is more important than the former. From the progress of the practice our theoretical knowledge grows and in the progress of the practice our theoretical progress is proved. No world-conception has been in so high a degree a philosophy of show more deeds as the dialectical materialism. Not only upon research but upon deeds do we rely to show the superiority of our philosophy. " Karl Kautsky (1854-1938), compiler of Karl Marx's Theories of Surplus Value (1905-10), has been rightly considered the successor of Engels in the intellectual leadership of the Marxian School. Kautsky was the founder of Die Neue Zeit and a political leader of the German Social Democrats. He denounced both Germany's aggression in World War I as well as the conduct of Russian Bolshevism after the 1917 Revolution. This book was originally published in 1906. show lessTags
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Notwithstanding a certain banality, this was a more influential work than the bulky treatise of 1927 (Die materialistische Geshichtsauffassung) which disclosed a painful falling-off in mental powers, as well as a marked failure to keep up with the changing situation in philosophy after the first world war. [1961]
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- Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History
- Original title
- Ethik und materialistische Geschichtsauffassung
- Original publication date
- 1906
- First words*
- Come parecchi altri scritti marxisti, anche questo è un lavoro d'occasione, nato da una polemica.
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Nella storia della filosofia il problema dell'etica acquista importanza predominante in Grecia, dopo le guerre persiane. - Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Anche questo libriccino non deve servire alla conoscenza contemplativa bensì alla lotta, ad una lotta nella quale dobbiamo spiegare una estrema energia etica assieme alla massima chiarezza della conoscenza e nella quale dobbiamo vincere.
INTRODUZIONE
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Il socialismo è inevitabile perché la lotta di classe, perché la vittoria del proletariato è inevitabile. - Original language
- German
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