Marx, revolution, and social democracy: Philip J. Kain Oxford University Press, 2023, 234pp., ISBN: 978-0197667187

In Marx, Revolution, and Social Democracy Philip Kain offers an erudite and persuasive account of Marx as a social democrat.
The book argues
(1) that Marx’s philosophy of communism is a critique of political and economic alienation—not primarily an account of social domination or exploitation;
(2) that Marx’s writings as a whole evince a set of distinctions about revolution, namely minority vs. majority revolution and political vs. social revolution;
(3) that Leninist practice rode roughshod of these distinctions, which is why it ended up erecting a putschist authoritarian regime, instead of a form of social democracy.
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