Main Currents of Marxism Volume 2 - The Golden Age

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Book by Leszek Kolakowski II. GERMAN ORTHODOXY: KARL KAUTSKY 1. Life and writings 2. Nature and society 3. Consciousness and the development of society 4. Revolution and socialism 5. Critique of Leninism 6. Inconsistencies in Kautsky's philosophy 7. A note on Mehring III. ROSA LUXEMBURG AND THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT 1. Biographical information 2. The theory of accumulation and the inevitable collapse of capitalism 3. Reform and revolution 4. The consciousness of the proletariat and forms of political organization 5. The national question IV. BERNSTEIN AND REVISIONISM 1 • The concept of revisionism 2. Biographical information 3. The laws of history and the dialectic 4. The revolution and the 'ultimate goal 5. The significance of revisionism 1 1 V. JEAN JAURES: MARXISM AS A SOTERIOLOGY 1. J au res as a conciliator 1 2. Biographical outline 1 3. The metaphysics of universal unity 4. The directing forces of history 5. Socialism and the republic 6. J aures's Marxism Vl Contents VI. PAUL LAFARGUE: A HEDONIST MARXISM VII. GEORGES SOREL: A JANSENIST MARXISM 1 . The place of Sorel 1 5 2. Biographical outline 3. Rationalism versus history. Utopia and myth. Criticism of the Enlightenment 4. Ricorsi. The separation of classes and the discontinuity of culture 5. Moral revolution and historical necessity 6. Marxism, anarchism, Fascism 1 VIII. ANTONIO LABRIOLA: AN ATTEMPT AT AN OPEN ORTHODOXY 1. Labriola's style 2. Biographical-note 1 3. Early writings 4 Philosophy of history IX. LUDWIK KRZYWICKI: MARXISM AS AN INSTRUMENT OF SOCIOLOGY 1. Biographical note 2. Critique of the biological theory of society 3. Prospects of socialism 4. Mind and production. Tradition and change X. KAZIMIERZ KELLES-KRAUZ: A POLISH BRAND OF ORTHODOXY XI. STANISLAW BRZOZOWSKI: MARXISM AS HISTORICAL SUBJECTIVISM 1 . Biographical note 2 1 2. Philosophical development 3. The philosophy of labour :223 4. Socialism, the proletariat, and the nation 5. Brzozowski's Marxism XII. AUSTRO-MARXISTS, KANTIANS IN THE MARXIST MOVEMENT, ETHICAL SOCIALISM 1. The concept of Austro-Marxism 2. The revival of Kantianism Contents vn 3. Ethical socialism 4. Kantianism in Marxism 5. The Austro-Marxists: biographical information 6. Adler: the transcendental foundation of the social sciences 7. Adler's critique of materialism and the dialectic 8. Adler: consciousness and social being 9. What is and what ought to be 10. The state, democracy, and dictatorship 11. The future of religion 12. Bauer: the theory of the nation :285 13. Hilferding: the controversy on the theory of value 14. Hilferding: the theory of imperialism XIII. THE BEGINNINGS OF RUSSIAN MARXISM 1. Intellectual movements during the reign of Nicholas I 2. Herzen 3. Chernyshevsky 4. Populism and the first reception of Marxism XIV. PLEKHANOV AND THE CODIFICATION OF MARXISM 1. The origins of Marxist orthodoxy in Russia 2. Dialectical and historical materialism 3. Marxist aesthetics 4. The struggle against revisionism 34 5. The conflict with Leninism XV. MARXISM IN RUSSIA BEFORE THE RISE OF BOLSHEVISM 1. Lenin: early journalistic writings 2. Struve and 'legal Marxism 3. Lenin's polemics in 1895-1901 XVI. THE RISE OF LENINISM 1. The controversy over Leninism 2. The party and the workers' movement. Consciousness and spontaneity 3. The question of nationality 4. The proletariat and the bourgeoisie in the democratic revolution. Trotsky and the 'permanent revolution XVII. PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS IN THE BOLSHEVIK MOVEMENT 1. Factional struggles at the time of the 1905 Revolution 2. New intellectual trends in Russia Contents 3. Empiriocriticism 4. Bogdanov and the Russian empiriocritics 5. The philosophy of the proletariat 6. The 'God-builders 7. Lenin's excursion into philosophy 8. Lenin and religion 9. Lenin's dialectical Notebooks XVIII. THE FORTUNES OF LENINISM: FROM A THEORY OF THE STATE TO A STATE IDEOLOGY 2. The Revolutions of 1917 3. The beginnings of socialist economy 4. The dictatorship of the proletariat and the dictatorship of the party 5. The theory of imperialism and of revolution 6. Socialism and the dictatorship of the proletariat 7. Trotsky on dictatorship 8. Lenin as an ideologist of totalitarianism 51 9. Martov on the Bolshevik ideology 5 1 10. Lenin as a polemicist. Lenin's genius SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX