The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky (Summarized Edition)

Lenin's The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky (1918) is a vehement defense of the October Revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat against Karl Kautsky's The Dictatorship of the Proletariat. It opposes bourgeois parliamentarism to soviet democracy, justifies the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, and reads legality through the prism of civil war and imperialist siege....