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Kautsky's disagreements with the Bolsheviks were not due to personal errors in interpreting Marxism, but his inability to apply Marxism to a revolutionary situation due to a lack of commitment to revolution. "A new strata in Western European society: the imperialist worker elite and their intellectual spokesmen."

on Kautsky's criticism of Bolsheviks, Rodney notes: "the apparent rigidity of his Marxism in interpreting the Russian Revolution is a reflection of the debilitating effect of imperialism n the consciousness of Western European workers."
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Resonates with today: Soviet historians and Trotsky suggested that the stupidity of Tsar Nicholas I's government was a reflection of irreconcilable contradictions in the society, which had upset the formerly secure feudal base.

Resonates with today: Soviet historians and Trotsky suggested that the stupidity of Tsar Nicholas I's government was a reflection of irreconcilable contradictions in the society, which had upset the formerly secure feudal base.

Resonates with today: Soviet historians and Trotsky suggested that the stupidity of Tsar Nicholas I's government was a reflection of irreconcilable contradictions in the society, which had upset the formerly secure feudal base.

Resonates with today: Soviet historians and Trotsky suggested that the stupidity of Tsar Nicholas I's government was a reflection of irreconcilable contradictions in the society, which had upset the formerly secure feudal base.

Resonates with today: Soviet historians and Trotsky suggested that the stupidity of Tsar Nicholas I's government was a reflection of irreconcilable contradictions in the society, which had upset the formerly secure feudal base.

"In initiating a study of the world at large, the African scholar or student can exercise choice - something that was impossible under colonialism ... There is no need to justify the selection; understanding the Soviet Union is a priority that is elf-evident."