The German-Austrian Socialist Karl Johann Kautsky (1854-1938) was the major theoretician of German Social Democracy before World War I and one of the principal figures in the history of the international Socialist movement. Born in Prague, Karl Kautsky...

Kautsky, Karl(1854–1939) Karl Kautsky was, with the exception of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the leading theorist of orthodox Marxism before World War I. Born in Prague of Czech and German parentage, Kautsky studied at Vienna and showed much...

Karl Kautsky (October 16 1854 - October 17 1938) was a leading theoretician of social democracy. He became a significant figure in Marxist history as the editor of the fourth volume of Karl Marx's economic critique, Das Kapital. He became the leading...

International Journal of Comparative Sociology Vol.30(1989) pp. 73-79 Kautsky discusses his attitude to Darwinism and neo-Lamarckism and claims, with the latter, to have linked biology and sociology. In his magnum opus, he used an investigation of basic human drives both as a...

Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA International Journal of Comparative Sociology Vol. 30 (1989) pp.80-92 In his Materialist Conception of History, Kautsky sought to explain development in nature and history as adaptation to a changed environment. Man adapts by changing his...