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Karl Kautsky

1854 - 1938

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Karl Johann Kautsky (; German: [ˈkaʊtski]; 16 October 1854 – 17 October 1938) was a Czech-Austrian Marxist theorist. One of the most authoritative promulgators of orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895, he was for decades the leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Second International. His influence was so pervasive that he was often called the "Pope of Marxism", and his views dominated European Marxism until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Born in Prague and educated in Vienna, Kautsky became a Marxist in 1881 through his association with Eduard Bernstein, while in exile in Zurich. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Kautsky is the 201st most popular philosopher (down from 177th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 39th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Czech Philosopher.

Karl Kautsky is most famous for his theories on the development of socialism. He postulated that capitalism would be replaced by socialism, which would eventually be replaced by communism.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Karl Kautsky ranks 201 out of 1,267. Before him are Nicolas Malebranche, John Rawls, Max Horkheimer, Christian Wolff, Diotima of Mantinea, and Slavoj Žižek. After him are Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Diogenes of Apollonia, Jean-François Lyotard, Rudolf Carnap, Hasan al-Basri, and Alcmaeon of Croton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Karl Kautsky ranks 11. Before him are Prince Louis of Battenberg, Leoš Janáček, Paul Ehrlich, Henri La Fontaine, Paul Sabatier, and Emil von Behring. After him are James George Frazer, George Eastman, Milan I of Serbia, Johannes Rydberg, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Hertha Ayrton. Among people deceased in 1938, Karl Kautsky ranks 17. Before him are Faustina Kowalska, Nikolai Bukharin, Kanō Jigorō, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Béla Kun, and Gabriele D'Annunzio. After him are Alexei Rykov, Genrikh Yagoda, Carl von Ossietzky, Suzanne Valadon, Christian Lous Lange, and Osip Mandelstam.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karl Kautsky ranks 45 out of 1,200. Before him are Gerty Cori (1896), Peter Grünberg (1939), Jan Palach (1948), Miloš Zeman (1944), Bernard Bolzano (1781), and Klement Gottwald (1896). After him are Adolf Loos (1870), Johann Palisa (1848), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), Václav Klaus (1941), Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), and Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Czechia

Among philosophers born in Czechia, Karl Kautsky ranks 5. Before him are John Amos Comenius (1592), Edmund Husserl (1859), Hans Kelsen (1881), and Bernard Bolzano (1781). After him are Jerome of Prague (1379), Jan Patočka (1907), Vilém Flusser (1920), Karel Kosík (1926), František Tomášek (1899), Tomáš Halík (1948), and Theodor Gomperz (1832).

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