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DOI: 10.1177/002071528903000107 © 1989 SAGE Publications My Book on the Materialist Conception of HistoryIn this brief summary of his magnum opus, Kautsky, emphasizing some of his differences with Marx and Engels, explains history as an ongoing process of man adapting to a changed environment by the creation of tools and social institutions which increasingly dominate him and require further adaptation. Pre-capitalist states are doomed to stagnate or decline, but capitalist societies advance through social revolution, first bourgeois and then pro letarian. - J.H.K.
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