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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966733703321

Autore

Pannekoek Anton <1873-1960.>

Titolo

Lenin as philosopher : a critical examination of the philosophical basis of Leninism / / Anton Pannekoek ; edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Lance Byron Richey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milwaukee, Wis., : Marquette University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-87462-938-1

0-585-49623-4

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Marquette studies in philosophy ; ; no. 31

Altri autori (Persone)

RicheyLance Byron <1966->

Disciplina

335.43/092

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Pannekoek, Lenin, and the future of Marxist philosophy -- Note on the text -- Introduction -- Marxism -- Middle class materialism -- Dietzgen -- Mach -- Avenarius -- Lenin -- The criticism -- Natural science -- Materialism -- Plekhanov's views -- The Russian revolution -- The proletarian revolution.

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1938 by a leader of the Council Communism movement, Anton Pannekoek's Lenin as Philospher offers a classic left-wing interpretation and critique of Lenin's philosophical accomplishment and its relationship to the development of Leninism as perhaps the dominant political theory of the twentieth century. Providing a detailed discussion of the philosophical background to the Machist controversy which occasioned Lenin's Materialism and Empirio criticism, Pannekoek's study still stands as one of the most forceful and politically astute discussions of the topic available. Published here for the first time in an annotated and scholarly edition, this masterpiece of Marxist criticism is accompanied by a lengthy new introduction expanding and assessing Pannekoek's discussion and arguing for the continuing relevance of Lenin's thought for Marxism in the new millennium.