Karl Kautsky Quotes
Political activity means working for the future; the more we look into the future the more far-sighted will our policy be - so much the more clear and decided. The less far we try to see into the future, the more we content ourselves with the daily routine (Alltäglichkeit), the more weak and uncertain will be our policy of to-day. Every politician of note must, therefore endeavor out of the present to conclude what the future will be, and, if he wants to win the masses to his politics then he must attempt to make his expectations of the future plausible
Karl Kautsky, 1854-1938, Czech/German Journalist, Publisher & Editor, Founder of Die Neue Zeit, The Hanover Congress, 1889
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She was charged with interfering with the Draft during WWI. She wrote and gave speeches against the war and was convicted according to the laws and court interpretations of the time.
He was referring to water rights where short term agreements might have disastrous consequences for future generations. Under the WWI Peace Treaty the high court of Egypt was an International Court. President Wilson nominated Crabites to this court and he served there for 3 decades during which he became a world class expert in Middle Eastern affairs. The failure to have a long-term perspective was a Middle Eastern problem then and did not improve in the next century.
Karl Johann Kautsky was a Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician. Kautsky was one of the most authoritative promulgators of orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in 1895 until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. He was the most important socialist theorist during the years of the Second International. He founded the socialist journal Neue Zeit.
