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Author:   Philip J. Kain 

Many people think Marx a totalitarian and Soviet Marxism the predictable outcome of his thought. If one shows them the texts-proves to them that Marx was a radical democrat–they often flip and think him utopian. Totalitarian or utopian–for many those seem to be the alternatives. How might one combat this completely mistaken image? To establish the connection between Marx and social democracy, philosopher Philip J. Kain argues four main points. First, economy if markets are controlled to eliminate alienation, socialist society for Marx is compatible with a market. Second, markets can be controlled democratically. Third, Marx had a theory of revolution compatible with a democratic electoral movement engaged in by a social democratic party. And fourth, from the late 1860s on, Marx and Engels worked with the German Social Democratic Party of Liebknecht, Bebel, Bernstein, and Kautsky–which eventually became the largest party in Germany and the largest socialist party in the world.If social democracy is a true expression of Marxism, then Marx cannot be called a totalitarian. There is nothing remotely totalitarian about social democracy. Nor is it utopian. It exists all over Western Europe. Moreover, social democratic parties have always opposed the undemocratic tactics of Soviet Marxism. Drawing on these four points, Kain argues against the depiction of Marx as either utopian or totalitarian, and instead makes a case for Marx as a social democrat, whose strongest legacy is found in Western Europe.

Marx, Revolution, and Social Democracy 1st Table of contents:

1. Marx and Markets
Markets and Fetishism
Ending Fetishism
Post-capitalist Stages
Socialist Inefficiency
2. Marx and Democracy
Political Alienation
Paris Commune
Democracy
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
State as Battleground
Proletarian Minority
3. Marx and Minority Revolution
Minority Revolution
Permanent Revolution
Russian Revolution
4. Marx and Majority Revolution
Majority Revolution
Historical Materialism and the Categorical Imperative
Compatibility of Models for Revolution
Political Revolution and Social Revolution
5. Marx and Social Democratic Revolution
Social Democratic Revolution
Industrial Proletariat Never Becomes a Majority
Social Democracy and the Categorical Imperative
Social Democracy and Historical Materialism
Marx and the Social Democratic Party of Germany
6. Marx and Social Democracy
Characteristics of Social Democracy
The Meidner Plan

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