The Study Of Kautsky’s Thought Of Relation Between Democracy And Socialism

It is due to the various of reasons that we all known, Kautsky as the German social Democratic Party and the second international famous leader. His thought has been controversial.With the rise of China’s reform and opening up, the Soviet Union and Eastern upheaval and development of socialism from all over the world in the hard time, the whole world is bring into a new era of globalization, Kautsky’s thought especially his ideas on the relationship between democracy and socialism,become more and more the era value of highlights. Therefore, this article based on the case of the era of democracy and the socialist relations background, emphatically discusses its emergence, development in different periods and its characteristic, and through the relationship between Kautsky and Lenin in democracy and socialism on the issue of debate, further deepen the understanding about the relation between Kautsky democracy and socialism, in order to fully reveal its contemporary significance.The text is composed of four interrelated parts.The first part mainly explored the relationship between Kautsky democracy and socialism thought historical background and theoretical origin. Its historical background is transiting free capitalism to monopoly capitalism.During this period. During this period, as the second revolution of science and technology to promote, the big industry of capitalist countries have been developed rapid, bourgeois democracy is growing and the proletariat constantly is expanding, thus the second international are formed; Since then, the capitalist countries carve up international market caused the contradiction between world war ii, and the disintegration of the second international, and it brought about the naissance of the October revolution.The main theory origin is that Marx’s theory of democracy, the proletariat revolutionary ideas, Engels using the ideas of parliamentary struggle, etc. At that time Europe popular ethical socialism, Darwinism and reformism, also has certain influence on the formation of a Kautsky related ideas.The second part mainly discusses the relationship between the Kautsky democracy and socialist ideological development in different periods and characteristics.The thought is mainly experienced bud, formation, maturation stages. In the bud, Kautsky has a preliminary understanding to the democracy and socialism, and the some of the important link between the two relationships have carried on the preliminary discussion.In formation, based on the in-depth study of political and economic monopoly capitalism, Kautsky from the Angle of political democracy, economic democracy, this paper expounds the dialectical relationship between democracy and socialism, put forward no capitalist economy and political democracy,and the result is no socialism.In the mature period, based on the understanding of the Russian revolution and socialist construction, Kautsky expounds the problem of the relation between democracy and dictatorship, emphasize the rejection of the dictatorship of the democracy is not the real socialism, it is to develop and deepen his ideas about the relationship between democracy and socialism.The third part mainly explores the Kautsky and Lenin on democracy and the socialist relations of debate. The debate is mainly around the nature of the Russian revolution, the proletariat seized power way, the relationship between democracy and dictatorship, the party organization, etc. On this issue,the academic circle is more focus on their differences, and rarely notice two people also have a consistent place till now.The fourth part discusses the relationship between the kautsky democracy and socialist ideas of contemporary meaning and its limitations.Kautsky in succession to develop the relationship between democracy and socialism of Marx and Engels thoughts, enrich the connotation of democracy and socialism. And further illustrates the dialectical relationship between democracy and socialism, democracy is the essence of socialism was put forward, in order to protect the democratic rights of the people,Capitalist democracy is the precondition of socialist democracy, etc. These views are not only influenced the European socialist movement, but also to the current our country’s socialist construction, especially the democratic political construction is of great significance.But for various reasons, Kautsky’s democracy and socialism also has some limitations, such as exaggerated the role of democracy, the lack of deep critique of capitalist democracy and so on.