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Russia: From Proletarian Revolution to State-Capitalist Counter-Revolution
Selected writings
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 108
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Russia: From Proletarian Revolution to State-Capitalist Counter-Revolution is a selection of writings by the Marxist-Humanist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya, which begins with an examination of Leninâs Hegel Notebooks, his philosophic preparation for proletarian revolution, followed by a section on âWhat Happens Afterâ the revolution--the first years post 1917. Analyses of Trotsky, Stalin, Bukharin, and Luxemburg are presented.
A key section is âRussiaâs Transformation into Opposite: The Theory of State-Capitalism.â Opposition to Russian state-capitalism such as the 1953 East Germany Revolt and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution are described. Maoâs China as another form of state-capitalism, as well as the Sino-Soviet conflict, is discussed. The study ends with a âbattle of ideasâ with other analyses of the Revolution and its aftermath.
A key section is âRussiaâs Transformation into Opposite: The Theory of State-Capitalism.â Opposition to Russian state-capitalism such as the 1953 East Germany Revolt and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution are described. Maoâs China as another form of state-capitalism, as well as the Sino-Soviet conflict, is discussed. The study ends with a âbattle of ideasâ with other analyses of the Revolution and its aftermath.
Raya Dunayevskaya, philosopher of Marxist-Humanism, was secretary to Leon Trotsky in exile in Mexico (1937-38). Her major writings include Marxism and Freedom (1957), Philosophy and Revolution (1973), and Rosa Luxemburg, Womenâs Liberation, and Marxâs Philosophy of Revolution (1982).
Eugene Gogol was one of Raya Dunayevksya's secretaries during the 1980s. He is author of an intellectual biography Raya Dunayevskaya: Philosopher of Marxist-Humanism. Among his other writings are: Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization, and Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin American Liberation.
Franklin Dmitryev is co-Trustee of the Raya Dunayevskaya Memorial Fund and National Organizer of News and Letters Committees. He has published numerous articles on Dunayevskayaâs thought, Marxist-Humanist philosophy, environmental justice, climate change, and other social issues.
Eugene Gogol was one of Raya Dunayevksya's secretaries during the 1980s. He is author of an intellectual biography Raya Dunayevskaya: Philosopher of Marxist-Humanism. Among his other writings are: Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization, and Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin American Liberation.
Franklin Dmitryev is co-Trustee of the Raya Dunayevskaya Memorial Fund and National Organizer of News and Letters Committees. He has published numerous articles on Dunayevskayaâs thought, Marxist-Humanist philosophy, environmental justice, climate change, and other social issues.
Editorial Note and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Eugene Gogol, Terry Moon and Franklin Dmitryev
i. The Present Moment and the Russian Revolution
ii. 1914â1917: War and Revolution as Testing/Turning Points
iii. An American Revolutionary Born Out of the Russian Revolution
iv. The Form and Content of the Present Volume
The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism
Part 1. Philosophic Preparation for Revolution: The Significance of Leninâs Hegel Notebooks
1. Translation of and Commentary on Leninâs âAbstract of Hegelâs Science of Logicâ
Three Letters to C.L.R. James in the Process of Translating Leninâs âAbstract of Hegelâs Science of Logicâ
Notes on a Series of Lectures: Lenin on Hegelâs Science of Logic
Hegelian Leninism Telos Conference
First English Language Translation of Excerpts from Leninâs âAbstract of Hegelâs Science of Logicâ
2. Dunayevskayaâs Changed Perception of Leninâs Philosophic Ambivalence, 1986â87
Prologue: Lenin as Seen in Excerpts from Dunayevskayaâs May 12, 1953
Letter on Hegelâs Absolutes
Letter to Non-Marxist Hegel Scholar Louis Dupré
Excerpts from Presentations, Letters, Notes
Part 2. On the Meaning of Leninâs âGreat Divide in Marxismâ; Contrast with Trotsky, Bukharin, Luxemburg
3. Lenin on Self-determination of Nations and on Organization After His Philosophic Notebooks
The Break in Leninâs Thought
What Was New on the Party Question in the Great Divide and After: The Relationship of the Masses to the Party
The Shock of Recognition and the Philosophic Ambivalence of Lenin
4. On Trotsky
Leon Trotsky as Man and as Theoretician
5. On Bukharin
Lenin vs. Bukharin: The Dialectic and Its Methodological Enemy, Abstract Revolutionism
6. On Luxemburg
Luxemburg and Lenin: Anti-war Internationalism; Contrasting Views on National Self-DeterminationâThe âJuniusâ Pamphlet
Luxemburgâs View of the Russian Revolution
7. On Women Revolutionaries in Russia
In Memoriam: Natalia Sedova Trotsky. Role of Women in Revolution
Russia, February 1917; Germany, January 1919; and Rosa Luxemburg
Part 3. What Happens After?âLenin 1917â1923
8. The Trade Union Debate and Leninâs Will
The Trade Union Debate
Lenin and His New Concept: Party Work to Be Checked by Non-party Masses
Leninâs Will
Part 4. Russiaâs Transformation into Opposite: The Theory of State-Capitalism
9. The Development of State-Capitalist Theory in the 1940s
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a Capitalist Society
An Analysis of Russian Economy
Labor and Society
Is Russia Part of the Collectivist Epoch of Society?
A New Revision of Marxian Economics
The Nature of the Russian Economy
Part 5. From State-Capitalist Theory to Marxist-Humanism, 1950sâ1980s
Introduction: From the State-Capitalist Tendency to the Birth of a Marxist-Humanist OrganizationâNew Stage of Production, New Stage of Cognition, New Kind of Organization
10. On Stalin
11. The Beginning of the End of Russian Totalitarianism
East Germany, June 17, 1953
The Revolt in the Slave Labor Camps in Vorkuta
Spontaneity of Action and Organization of Thought: In Memoriam of the Hungarian Revolution
12. Post-Stalin Russia
Without a Past and Without a Future [On Khrushchev]
After the 20th Congress of the Russian Communist Party: Where is Russia Going?
Titoâs Turnabout
Andropovâs Ascendancy Reflects Final State of State-Capitalismâs Degeneracy
Reagan, Gorbachev in Iceland: All Things Fall Apart
13. On Maoâs China
Only Freedom Can Solve the Crisis
âLet 100 Flowers Bloomâ¦But Only One Party Ruleâ
The âPhilosophyâ of the Yenan Period: Mao Perverts Lenin
Sino-Indian War Reveals Relationship of Ideology to State-Capitalist Imperialism
Indonesian Communism: A Case of World Communismâs Decomposition
14. The Sino-Soviet Split
Can There Be War between Russia and China? The Non-Viability of
State-Capitalism
Splintered World Communism
15. The Cuban Revolution and What Happens After?
The Cuban Revolution: The Year After
Ideology and Revolution: A Study of What Happens Afterâ¦
The Double Tragedy of Che Guevara
Shortcut to Revolution or Long Road to Tragedy? On Regis Debrayâs Revolution in the Revolution
16. State-Capitalism as a âNew Stage of World Capitalismâ vs. The Humanism of Marx
The Humanism of Marx is the Basic Foundation for Anti-Stalinism Today
The New Stage of World Capitalism: State-Capitalism
âCulture,â Science and State-Capitalism
State-Capitalism and the Dialectic
17. Battle of Ideas
Milovan Djilasâ New Class
Intellectuals in the Age of State-Capitalism [On Herbert Marcuseâs Soviet Marxism]
Western Intellectuals Help K[hrushchev], Inc. Rebury Leninâs
Philosophic Legacy [On Gustav A. Wetter, David Joravsky, George Lichtheim, Eugene Kamenka]
Footnote on the Detractors of Lenin [On Cornelius Castoriadis (aka Pierre Chaulieu or Paul Cardan)]
Lukácsâ Philosophic Dimension
Tony Cliff Degrades Lenin as Theoretician
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Eugene Gogol, Terry Moon and Franklin Dmitryev
i. The Present Moment and the Russian Revolution
ii. 1914â1917: War and Revolution as Testing/Turning Points
iii. An American Revolutionary Born Out of the Russian Revolution
iv. The Form and Content of the Present Volume
The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism
Part 1. Philosophic Preparation for Revolution: The Significance of Leninâs Hegel Notebooks
1. Translation of and Commentary on Leninâs âAbstract of Hegelâs Science of Logicâ
Three Letters to C.L.R. James in the Process of Translating Leninâs âAbstract of Hegelâs Science of Logicâ
Notes on a Series of Lectures: Lenin on Hegelâs Science of Logic
Hegelian Leninism Telos Conference
First English Language Translation of Excerpts from Leninâs âAbstract of Hegelâs Science of Logicâ
2. Dunayevskayaâs Changed Perception of Leninâs Philosophic Ambivalence, 1986â87
Prologue: Lenin as Seen in Excerpts from Dunayevskayaâs May 12, 1953
Letter on Hegelâs Absolutes
Letter to Non-Marxist Hegel Scholar Louis Dupré
Excerpts from Presentations, Letters, Notes
Part 2. On the Meaning of Leninâs âGreat Divide in Marxismâ; Contrast with Trotsky, Bukharin, Luxemburg
3. Lenin on Self-determination of Nations and on Organization After His Philosophic Notebooks
The Break in Leninâs Thought
What Was New on the Party Question in the Great Divide and After: The Relationship of the Masses to the Party
The Shock of Recognition and the Philosophic Ambivalence of Lenin
4. On Trotsky
Leon Trotsky as Man and as Theoretician
5. On Bukharin
Lenin vs. Bukharin: The Dialectic and Its Methodological Enemy, Abstract Revolutionism
6. On Luxemburg
Luxemburg and Lenin: Anti-war Internationalism; Contrasting Views on National Self-DeterminationâThe âJuniusâ Pamphlet
Luxemburgâs View of the Russian Revolution
7. On Women Revolutionaries in Russia
In Memoriam: Natalia Sedova Trotsky. Role of Women in Revolution
Russia, February 1917; Germany, January 1919; and Rosa Luxemburg
Part 3. What Happens After?âLenin 1917â1923
8. The Trade Union Debate and Leninâs Will
The Trade Union Debate
Lenin and His New Concept: Party Work to Be Checked by Non-party Masses
Leninâs Will
Part 4. Russiaâs Transformation into Opposite: The Theory of State-Capitalism
9. The Development of State-Capitalist Theory in the 1940s
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a Capitalist Society
An Analysis of Russian Economy
Labor and Society
Is Russia Part of the Collectivist Epoch of Society?
A New Revision of Marxian Economics
The Nature of the Russian Economy
Part 5. From State-Capitalist Theory to Marxist-Humanism, 1950sâ1980s
Introduction: From the State-Capitalist Tendency to the Birth of a Marxist-Humanist OrganizationâNew Stage of Production, New Stage of Cognition, New Kind of Organization
10. On Stalin
11. The Beginning of the End of Russian Totalitarianism
East Germany, June 17, 1953
The Revolt in the Slave Labor Camps in Vorkuta
Spontaneity of Action and Organization of Thought: In Memoriam of the Hungarian Revolution
12. Post-Stalin Russia
Without a Past and Without a Future [On Khrushchev]
After the 20th Congress of the Russian Communist Party: Where is Russia Going?
Titoâs Turnabout
Andropovâs Ascendancy Reflects Final State of State-Capitalismâs Degeneracy
Reagan, Gorbachev in Iceland: All Things Fall Apart
13. On Maoâs China
Only Freedom Can Solve the Crisis
âLet 100 Flowers Bloomâ¦But Only One Party Ruleâ
The âPhilosophyâ of the Yenan Period: Mao Perverts Lenin
Sino-Indian War Reveals Relationship of Ideology to State-Capitalist Imperialism
Indonesian Communism: A Case of World Communismâs Decomposition
14. The Sino-Soviet Split
Can There Be War between Russia and China? The Non-Viability of
State-Capitalism
Splintered World Communism
15. The Cuban Revolution and What Happens After?
The Cuban Revolution: The Year After
Ideology and Revolution: A Study of What Happens Afterâ¦
The Double Tragedy of Che Guevara
Shortcut to Revolution or Long Road to Tragedy? On Regis Debrayâs Revolution in the Revolution
16. State-Capitalism as a âNew Stage of World Capitalismâ vs. The Humanism of Marx
The Humanism of Marx is the Basic Foundation for Anti-Stalinism Today
The New Stage of World Capitalism: State-Capitalism
âCulture,â Science and State-Capitalism
State-Capitalism and the Dialectic
17. Battle of Ideas
Milovan Djilasâ New Class
Intellectuals in the Age of State-Capitalism [On Herbert Marcuseâs Soviet Marxism]
Western Intellectuals Help K[hrushchev], Inc. Rebury Leninâs
Philosophic Legacy [On Gustav A. Wetter, David Joravsky, George Lichtheim, Eugene Kamenka]
Footnote on the Detractors of Lenin [On Cornelius Castoriadis (aka Pierre Chaulieu or Paul Cardan)]
Lukácsâ Philosophic Dimension
Tony Cliff Degrades Lenin as Theoretician
Bibliography
Index
Academics, institutions and departments, as well as social activists, interested in Russian history, revolutionary social transformation, dialectical philosophy, Marxism and Communism, particularly on this centenary of the Russian Revolution.