Abstract
In July 1915, Leon Trotsky responded to the ideas set out by Karl Kautsky's ponderous but thought-provoking essay on the State, Imperialist State, and Confederation. For Kautsky, the natural human community always originated in a common language, and the consequent limits of popular political discourse dictated the impossibility of abandoning the nation-state and its parliamentary institutions. The recognition of every nation's right to self-determination, which is included in Russian Social Democracy's programme, traces its origin to the epoch of revolutionary battles for national bourgeois democracy. It is perfectly true that Social Democracy always and everywhere defends the interests of economic development and opposes all political measures that might delay it. Keywords:economic development; Karl Kautsky; Leon Trotsky; National State
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