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Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought (Radical Thinkers)

By Georg Lukacs

Book information

Publisher
Verso Books
Year
2009
ISBN
1844673529, 9781844673520
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
726 kB (743187 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
107\92
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-04-02 03:24:34

Description

Out of the chaos following Lenin’s death and the mounting fury against Lukács and his freshly penned History and Class Consciousness (1923), this book bears an assessment of Lenin as “the only theoretical equal to Marx.” Lukács 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. Lukács’s study remains indispensable to an understanding of the contemporary significance of Lenin’s life and work.

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