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who is kautsky and how did Lenin produce those paragraphs before they invented ritalin:
placeholder text for if I still want to research answers when I wake upA German social democrat. The core point of Lenin's criticism I believe was that Kautsky was de-radicalizing Marxism and trying to make it compatible with bourgeois democracy, to transform it from a revolutionary ideology into bourgeois electoralism. If you're curious about the details, here's a link to Lenin's work that this meme is joking about.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/