There seems to exist an intimate link between the dialectical method and revolutionary theory: not by chance, the high period of revolutionary thinking in the XXth century, the years 1905-1925, are also those of some of the most interesting attemps to use the hegelo-marxist dialectics as an instrument of knowledge and action. Let me try to illustrate the connexion between dialectics and revolution in the thought of three distinct Marxist figures : Leon D. Trotsky, Vladimir I. Lenin and György Lukacs.
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Trotsky, Lenin, Lukacs
Dialectics and Revolution
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Permanent Revolution
The Marxism of Trotsky’s "Results and Prospects"
9 September 2006, byTrotsky’s theory of permanent revolution, as sketched for the first time in his essay Results and Prospects (1906), was one of the most astonishing political breakthroughs in Marxist thinking at the begining of the XXth century.
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The persistence of revolution
The Mole and the Locomotive
8 September 2006, byDaniel Bensaid reflects on the persistance of resistance and revolution at times when the power of capitalism seems unstoppable and overwhelming.
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Marxism and classical sociology
Marx, Weber and the Critique of Capitalism
31 August 2006, byDespite their undeniable differences, Marx and Weber have much in common in their appraisals of modern capitalism: they share a vision of the capitalist economic system as a universe where “individuals are directed by abstractions,” (Marx), where impersonal relations and objects [Versachlicht] replace personal relations of dependence, and where the accumulation of capital becomes an end in itself and, by and large, irrational.
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Marxism
On a Recent Book by John Holloway
16 June 2006, byJohn Holloway’s book, Change the World Without Taking Power (London, Pluto Press, 2002) has provoked wide-ranging debate on the left. In its new pamphlet the International Institute for Study and Research has collated a number of contributions to the debate, starting with a critique of Holloway’s book by Daniel Bensaïd.
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France
"The question of a link between workers and students is immediate"
27 March 2006, byDaniel Bensaid, in this interview with Socialist Worker, reflects on the current battle of the French students and its comparisons with student movements of the past.
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Interview
The party and the period
16 March 2006, by“We are at a turning point, the moment of transition from one cycle to another”
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The fate of revolution in the 20th Century
Stalinism and Bolshevism
16 December 2005, byThis article, written for the Italian magazine Erre, reviews how well Trotsky’s 1937 pamphlet stands the test of time in examining the origins of Stalinism - and discusses what needs to be reformulated today.
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The material foundations of opportunism
1993: The nature of social-democratic reformism
28 August 2005, byErnest Mandel wrote this study of the nature of social democracy twelve years ago. Many of the references in it are a little dated, but the article gives valuable insights into the basic character of reformism.
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Marxism
Ernest Mandel and the Marxian Theory of Bureaucracy
26 July 2005, byThe emergence and growth of bureaucracy over the last two hundred years has been the subject of considerable discussion among social scientists. Ernest Mandel’s work provides a powerful Marxian alternative to the Stalinist, social-democratic and bourgeois theories that deny the possibility of democratically organized workers’ struggles.
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