Karl Kautsky, Die Diktatur des Proletariats, Vienna 1918.
Karl Kautsky, The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, National Labour Press 1919.
Some of the translations of Marxist terminology have been modified to bring them into line with modern Marxist usage.
Transcribed and marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.
I. The Problem
II. Democracy and the Conquest of Political Power
III. Democracy and the Ripening of the Proletariat
IV. The Effects of Democracy
V. Dictatorship
VI. Constituent Assembly and Soviet
VII. The Soviet Republic
VIII. The Object Lesson
IX. The Legacy of the Dictatorship:
(a) Agriculture
(b) Industry
X. The New Theory
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