Abstract
The newest essay by Karl Kautsky, State, Imperialist State and Confederation, partly recapitulates and partly supplements the analysis of the present war that he has offered in different articles in Die Neue Zeit . Kautsky thus completely disregards the conception of the national state as a transitory and historically determined phase of bourgeois class-rule, a phase long overcome by imperialism and most clearly buried precisely in the present world war. Modern democracy appears in this way - like its worthy complement, the national state - not as a prosaic piece of bourgeois class-rule, with all the traces of its limited earthly existence and clear signs of decay, but wrapped up in the thick fog of abstraction and in the everlasting existence of the ideal. Keywords:confederation; imperialism; Imperialist State; Karl Kautsky; National State
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