Karl Kautsky founds the monthly Die Neue Zeit ("The New Times") in Stuttgart in 1883.

Born in Prague to artistic middle-class parents, Kautsky had moved with his family to Vienna at the age of seven.

He had studied history, philosophy and economics at the University of Vienna from 1874, and became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) in 1875.

In 1880, he had joined a group of German socialists in Zurich who were supported financially by Karl Höchberg, and who smuggled socialist material into the Reich at the time of the Anti-Socialist Laws.

Influenced by Eduard Bernstein, Karl Höchberg's secretary, he had become a Marxist and in 1881 visited Marx and Engels in England.