num_pages: 14
description: 'A few numbers of the Berlin Red Banner and the Vienna Call (Weckruf)  organ of the Communist Party of German Austria that have reached Moscow showed that the traitors to socialism  those who supported the war of the predatory imperialists  the Scheidemanns and Kautskys Austerlitzes and Renners [All who were far right German Social-Democrats]  are getting the rebuff they deserve from these genuine representatives of the revolutionary workers of Germany and Austria. We extend warm greetings to both papers which epitomise the vitality and growth of the Third International.Apparently the chief question of the revolution both in Germany and Austria now is: Constituent Assembly or Soviet government? The spokesmen of the bankrupt Second International all the way from Scheidemann to Kautsky stand for the first and describe their stand as defense of democracy (Kautsky has even gone so far as to call it pure democracy) as distinct from dictatorship. In the pamphlet The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky  which has just come off the press in Moscow and Petrograd I examine Kautsky's views in detail. I shall try briefly to give the substance of the point at issue which has become the question of the day for all the advanced capitalist countries.'
language: English
title: Democracy and Dictatorship
publisher: Pravda