Lenin’s Marxism
Submitted by leftforum on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 10:32pm
Panel Abstract:
What was distinctive about Vladimir Lenin’s Marxism? What was its relationship to the other forms of Marxism and Marxists of his era? Was Lenin orthodox or heterodox? Was there a "unity" to Lenin’s political thought, as Georg Lukács argued, or do his major works -- What is to Be Done? (1902), Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916), The State and Revolution (1917), “Left-Wing Communism:” An Infantile Disorder? (1920) -- express distinctive and even contradictory phases in Lenin’s political development? How did Lenin’s Marxism overcome -- or not -- other competing forms of Marxism? How should we understand Lenin’s historical contribution to Marxism, today?
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Panel Abstract:
What was distinctive about Vladimir Lenin’s Marxism? What was its relationship to the other forms of Marxism and Marxists of his era? Was Lenin orthodox or heterodox? Was there a "unity" to Lenin’s political thought, as Georg Lukács argued, or do his major works -- What is to Be Done? (1902), Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916), The State and Revolution (1917), “Left-Wing Communism:” An Infantile Disorder? (1920) -- express distinctive and even contradictory phases in Lenin’s political development? How did Lenin’s Marxism overcome -- or not -- other competing forms of Marxism? How should we understand Lenin’s historical contribution to Marxism, today?
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