Karl Kautsky’s 1908 work published by the Communist Party’s International Publishers in 1925 as one of their first projects. Online text of full book here.

Foundations of Christianity; a Study in Christian Origins by Karl Kautsky. International Publishers, New York. 1925.

Contents: Introduction, The Personality of Jesus, The Pagan Sources, The Christian Sources, The Struggle for the Image of Jesus, Roman Society in the Slave-holding Period, The Slave-Holding System, a. Property in Land; b. Domestic Slavery; c. Slavery in the Production of Commodities; d. The Technical Inferiority of the Slave-Holding System; e. The Economic Decline, The Life of the State, a. The State and Trade; b. Patricians and Plebeians; c. The Roman State; d. Usury; e. Absolutism, Currents of Thought in the Roman Imperial Period, a. Weakening of Social Ties; b. Credulity; c. The Resort to Lying; d. Humanitarianism ; e. Internationalism; f. The Tendency to Religion; g. Monotheism. The Jews, The People of Israel, a. Semitic Tribal Migrations; b. Palestine; c. The Conception of God in Ancient Israel; d. Trade and Philosophy; e. Trade and Nationality; f. Canaan a Thoroughfare of Nations; g. Class Struggles in Israel; h. The Downfall of Israel; i. The First Destruction of Jerusalem, The Jews After the Exile, a. Banishment; b. The Jewish Diaspora; c. The Jewish Propaganda; d. Hatred of the Jews; e. Jerusalem; f. The Sadducees; g. The Pharisees; h. The Zealots; i. The Essenes, The Beginnings of Christianity, The Primitive Christian Congregation a. The Proletarian Character of the Congregation; b. Class Hatred; c. Communism; d. The Objections to Communism; e. Contempt for Labor; f. The Destruction of the Family, The Christian Idea of the Messiah, a. The Coming of the Kingdom of God; b. The Ancestry of Jesus; c. Jesus as a Rebel; d. The Resurrection of the Crucified; e. The International Redeemer, Jewish Christians and Pagan Christians a. The Agitation among the Pagans; b. The Opposition between Jews and Christians, The Story of Christ’s Passion, The Evolution of the Organization of the Congregation a. Proletarians and Slaves; b. The Decline of Communism; c. Apostles, Prophets and Teachers; d. The Bishop; e. The Monastery. Christianity and Socialism, Index. 480 pages.

PDF of full book: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t8vc0dv54