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Kautsky, Karl, 1854-1938. Georgia, a social-democratic peasant republic, impressions and observations - Image 67. 1921. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. February 27, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/3970/show/3920.

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Kautsky, Karl, 1854-1938. (1921). Georgia, a social-democratic peasant republic, impressions and observations - Image 67. Socialist and Communist Pamphlets. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/3970/show/3920

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Kautsky, Karl, 1854-1938, Georgia, a social-democratic peasant republic, impressions and observations - Image 67, 1921, Socialist and Communist Pamphlets, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed February 27, 2021, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/3970/show/3920.

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Title	Georgia, a social-democratic peasant republic, impressions and observations
Creator (LCNAF)	Kautsky, Karl, 1854-1938
Contributor (LCNAF)	Stenning, H. J. (Henry James), 1889-, translator
Publisher	International Bookshops
Place of Creation (TGN)	London, England
Date	1921
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	Georgia
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Extent	111, [1] pages; 19 cm
Original Item Location	DK5ll.G3K3 1921
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304504~S11
Original Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	Public Domain: This item is in the public domain and may be used freely.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 67
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Transcript	of mere.power, and thinking that its possession alone is sufficient to ensure the fulfilment of the, desires and the satisfaction of the wants of the proletariat, at one stroke. A Socialist Government must always keep steadily in mind that its activities are restricted by the economic necessities and possibilities, and it may not overstep these limitations without jeopardising society and the progress, of the workers to better conditions of living. With every measure of socialisation, it must verify exactly the condition of the branch of industry, and the capabilities and resources which are at its disposal. With every limitation which it sets upon the will of the employer, it must consider whether the productivity of labour will not thereby be lessened. It must ceaselesslv strive to develop the productive forces of the country, and, in so far as this is not yet possible by socialist means and methods, capitalist measures to further this object must be permitted, and under circumstances even encouraged. The Social-Democratic Government of Georgia has been guided by these principles, and in this have shown themselves to be intelligent pupils of our great masters, Marx and Engels. Whenever a Social-Democratic Government may come into power, it will be obliged to act on the same principles, and the benefit of the Georgian experience will be at its disposal. The idea that the only task of a Socialist Government is to put Socialism intoi practice is not a Marxist one, but pre-Marxist and utotpiani. It conceives of Socialism: as an ideal picture of a complete society. Like ideal conceptions generally, its nature is very simple. Once it has been thought out, only the necessary power is required to realise this ideal everywhere and under all circumstances. When this result does not immediately follow on the possession of power, it is due either to treachery or to cowardice. A Socialist Government has no other task than the putting into practice of the ideal Socialist State. The 65