A Note on Sources and Abbreviations
To save space, when referring to Lenin’s writings or to Hegel’s Science of Logic, I will, using the abbreviations listed below, with footnote references provided (1) to pages in the standard Moscow-based English-language edition of Lenin’s Collected Works, (2) to pages in the English translation of the Science of Logic, by Arnold Miller, and (3) to the numbered paragraphs found in all editions of Hegel’s shorter Encyclopedia Logic. I will occasionally modify these translations, however. For Lenin I have used the translations in the standard English-language edition of the Collected Works, except with regard to the Hegel Notebooks in Volume 38. For the notebooks I have usually substituted Raya Dunayevskaya’s translation, which tends to be more sensitive to Hegelian terminology, while still giving references to Volume 38 of the Collected Works. With Hegel’s Science of Logic I will sometimes modify the Miller translation after consulting both the earlier Johnston and Struthers translation and the German original (Suhrkamp edition). With Hegel’s shorter Encyclopedia Logic I have used the new Geraets, Suchting, and Harris translation, but I have sometimes modified it after consulting the earlier Wallace translation and the German original (Felix Meiner edition). A fuller account of these sources is found in the bibliography. Finally, all emphasis is in the original text unless otherwise noted.
Examples of References Used Directly in the Text:
| CW 1:1 |
Volume 1, page 1, of Lenin’s Collected Works |
| SL 1 |
page 1 of Hegel’s Science of Logic |
| EL ¶ 102 |
Paragraph 102 of Hegel’s Encyclopedia Logic (Shorter Logic) |