ABSTRACT
Karl Kautsky served as the leading interpreter of Karl Marx for the next two decades. He helped found the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD, which was the largest Socialist Party in the world. Kautsky also served as the virtual pope of the Second International and edited Die Neue Zeit, the leading international Marxist journal for a whole generation of Socialists, from its founding in 1883 until the end of the First World War. Kautsky consciously carried on the legacy of Marx and Friedrich Engels in his work as a faithful disciple, while still leaving room for a certain amount of development and a few areas for critical analysis. Kautsky's international reputation diminished due to his condemnation of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Kautsky attributes the differences between humans to their society and environment and rejects the emphasis of Darwinians upon race as an all determining destiny of people.
