Lenin - A Study in The Unity of His Thought

Author: Georg LukacsPublisher: Seagull BooksYear: 1997Language: EnglishPages: 92ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170462681 DescriptionThis book is the product of an unprecedented, and unrepeatable, conjuncture. Written immediately after Lenin’s death in 1924, and thus on the cusp of a period of bureaucratic reaction in the Communist movement, it consists of the reflections of the most important Marxist philosopher of the twentieth century on the thought of the most significant Marxist politician of the century. In sharp contrast to contemporary and later characterisations of Lenin either as a cynical and shallow opportunist or as a source of readymade dogmas and formulae, Georg Lukács restored to Lenin’s thought its true intellectual and political stature. Bringing to bear the concepts of totality, concreteness and the dialectic that he had developed in his masterwork History and Class Consciousness, Lukács convincingly demonstrated that the key conceptual innovations in Lenin’s political tho