by Karl Kautsky (Author)

The Road to Power has often been described as one of Karl Kautsky's most important and revolutionary works. The book also gained prominence as a result of its reception. As Kautsky's last major attack on those who hoped for a gradual "growth into socialism" by means of reforms and coalitions in the autocratic Wilhelmine Empire, it outraged Revisionists in the Social Democratic Party as well as certain trade union leaders.