Lenin
A Study on the Unity of His Thought
Published on 5. May 2020
102 pages
978-1-78960-463-4 (ISBN)
Description
Out of the chaos following Lenin's death and the mounting fury against Luk¿cs and his freshly penned History and Class Consciousness (1923), this book bears an assessment of Lenin as "the only theoretical equal to Marx." Luk¿cs shows, with unprecedented clarity, how Lenin's historical interventions-from his vanguard politics and repurposing of the state to his detection of a new, imperialist stage of capitalism-advanced the conjunction of theory and practice, class consciousness and class struggle. A postscript from 1967 reflects on how this picture of Lenin, which both shattered failed Marxism and preserved certain prejudices of its day, became even more inspirational after the oppressions of Stalin. Luk¿cs's study remains indispensable to an understanding of the contemporary significance of Lenin's life and work.
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Edition
Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78960-463-4 (9781789604634)
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Persons
Georg Luk¿cs (1885-1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1. The Actuality of the Revolution
- 2. The Proletariat as the Leading Class
- 3. The Vanguard Party of the Proletariat
- 4. Imperialism: World War and Civil War
- 5. The State as Weapon
- 6. Revolutionary Realpolitik
- Postscript 1967
- Notes
