Page:Karl Kautsky - Ethics and The Materialist Conception of History - tr. J. B. Askew (1906).pdf/58

"Back to Kant!" and with a repudiation of Materialism, since it denies the freedom of the will. Despite the categoric imperative which the Kantian Ethic cries to the individual, its historical and social tendency from the very beginning on till to-day has been that of toning down, of reconciling antagonisms, not of overcoming them through struggle.