Quotes from Karl Kautsky

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

Many a man thinks he has given proof of wisdom when he says, "There is nothing new under the sun." There is nothing more false. Modern science shows that nothing is stationary, that in society, just as in external nature, a continuous development is discoverable.

As things stand today capitalist civilization cannot continue; we must either move forward into socialism or fall back into barbarism.

True virtue consists in the care for the common weal, it can only flourish where the commonwealth at the same time advances the interests of the individual, where he cannot damage the commonwealth without damaging himself.

The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.