Lenin

In Luk cs elegantly crafted, concise and accessible account, Lenin emerges as the consummate dialectician, the theoretician of practice and the practitioner of theory. Read Lenin – kino-fada.fr Written in part as an elegy upon Lenin s decease, and in part as insurance against author s own impending liquidation for his magnum opus, History and Class Consciousness, had been condemned by Soviet authorities in 1924 at the fifth World Congress of the Comintern Jay, Marxism Totality, at 103 this book is a funny little thing Jay avers that even Lukacs enemies recognized the HCC as the first book in which philosophical Marxism ceases to be a cosmological romance and thus a surro Written in part as an elegy upon Lenin s decease, and in part as insurance against author s own imp...After the Soviet state arose and before Stalin s iron heel came down this fleeting snapshot captured a true Marxist revolution Lukacs s polemic is at once too good to dismiss and too hostile to its own ideas to redeem Such contradictory moments within the same work make up a dialectic whose relevance to socialism just may beimportant than the book itself But how so can a book negate its own content The reading gives a trenchant, brilliant explanation of the ideas that, exactly 100 years After the Soviet state arose and...This might seem to some like nothingthan a concise explication of the principle themes of Lenin s writings Indeed, it is that and it functions quite well in that regard However, it is also mucha work of Lukacsian philosophy than it might at first seem Whether this makes this short workor less valuable depends on your opinions regarding Lukacs s brand of Hegelianism Throughout the book, Lukacs argues that Lenin s thought distinguishes itself from other Marxists by its focus This might seem to some like nothingthan a concise explication of the principle themes of Lenin s writings Indeed, it is that and it functions quite well in that regard However, it is also mucha work of Lukacsian philosophy than it might at first seem Whether this makes this short workor less valuable depends on your opinions regarding Lukacs s brand of Hegelianism Throughout the book, Lukacs argues that Lenin s thought distinguishes itself from other Marxists by its f...Extremely sympathetic and brief assessment of Lenin s thought presented as exhibiting a coherence both from work to work, but as the well deserved decedent of Marx and Engels Luk cs presents Lenin as redemming the dialectic of Marx from poo...A short but urgent book, and quite enjoyable as a result, although most claims are remarkably sweeping Nevertheless, many of these do stand up to scrutiny and are animated by the energy of the time in which they were written as a consequence, the 1967 postscript is a bit drab by comparison.No idea what the other reviewer means by calling this hagiography if anything that s an accurate description of the 1967 Postscript, that goes on and on about Lenin s wonderful personality Unfortunately any work that sees Lenin s thought as the continuation of Marxism without calling him a dictator is seen by leftists as dogma, whatever that means.This work was the first attempt to synthesize Lenin s thought, and probably an impressive achievement for 1924.Lukacs bases Lenin s conception o No idea what the other reviewer means by calling this hagiography if anything that s an accurate description of the 1967 Postscript, that goes on and on about Lenin s wonderful personality Unfortunately any work that sees Lenin s thought as the continuation of Marxism without calling him a dictator is seen by leftists as dogma, whatever that ...The first 90 pages of this book are primarily hagiography Which is a shame because overall Lukacs was undoubtedly one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, and certainly one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Marxist thinker of the 20th century But Lukacs interjects that no, Lenin is in fact the true genius of our time, since Marx Where as Marx gave us the theoretical cunning to wage class warfare, Lenin consummately put it into practice.Lenin s true genius, according to Lukacs, wa The first 90 pages of this book are primarily hagiography Which is a shame because overall Lukacs was undoubtedly one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, and certainly one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Marxist thinker of the 20th century But Lukacs interjects that no, Lenin is in fact the true genius of our time, since Marx Where as Marx gave us the theoretical cunning to wage class warfare, Lenin consummately put it into practice.Lenin s true genius, according to Lukacs, was to always b...This is a hugely underappreciated piece of work In less than 100 pages Luk cs makes the case that Lenin was a thinker on par with Marx, and the only thinker to be so since Marx at that time His use of the dialectic helps the reader in understanding the dialectic itself, and in fact his dialectic cuts against his later self criticisms and establishes a clear break from the Luk cs we read in this work, and the Stalinist Luk cs of later years.This isthan just sycophancy Luk cs tackles br This is a hugely underappreciated piece of work In less than 100 pages Luk cs makes the case that Lenin was a thinker on par with Marx, and the only thinker to be so since Marx at that time His use of the dialectic helps the reader in un...Lenin the practical leader to whom is attributed such guiding bromides as be as radical as reality and begin again at the beginning again and again and left wing communism an infantile disorder is drawn clearly in this 1924 analysis by Lukacs the Hungarian philosopher politician partisan Written quickly after death of Lenin and before the rise of Stalin this important historical text includes a 1967 afterword by the long lived Lukacs Fascinating and accessible I struggled mightily year Lenin the practical leader to whom is attributed such guiding bromides as be as radical as reality and begin again at the beginning again and again and left wing communism an infantile disorder is drawn clearly in this 1924 analysis by Lukacs the Hungarian philosopher politician partisan Written quickly after death of Lenin and before the rise of Stalin this important historical text includes a 1967 afterword by the long lived Lukacs F...Part hagiography, part theoretical coming to terms with the Gandalf of the Russian Revolution or so the imagery Lukacs wishes to paint of his subject Good enough.

• English
• 20 April 2017
György Lukács
• Paperback
• 104 pages
• 1859841740
• György Lukács
• Lenin