Ebook: The Materialist Conception of History

Although written in 1927, when Kautsky was seventy-three, “The Materialist Conception of History is more nearly a work of the late 19th century or pre-World War I 20th, rather than of the 1920s, ... and should be read ... as a document illustrating the state of ... Marxism in the generation after Marx's death”, according to grandson and publisher John Kautsky, who also edited the work, published by Yale University Press 1988, to reduce its length.