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lol, I feel like a pretty decent percentage of State and Revolution was Lenin throwing shade on his contemporaries.
Fucking
Kautsky!
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Kautsky had a special place in Lenin's heart, especially when the former saw revolutionary potential in Russia, when this Tsarist bastion of reaction turned more revolutionary by the day, compared to Western EuropeThis didn't last, after Kautsky decided criticize Lenin for incorporating the Workers' Soviets into a new Soviet Union, for state power