Dialectics and revolution

Trotsky, Lenin, Lukács

Michael Löwy

pp. 151-162

in: Bertell Ollman, Tony Smith (eds), Dialectics for the new century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Abstract

There seems to exist an intimate link between the dialectical method and the revolutionary theory: not by chance, the high period of revolutionary thinking in the twentieth century, the years 1905-1925, are also those of some of the most interesting attempts to use the Hegelo-Marxist dialectics as an instrument of knowledge and action. Let me try to illustrate the connection between dialectics and revolution in the thought of three distinct Marxist figures: Leon D. Trotsky, Vladimir I. Lenin and Georg Lukács.

Cited authors

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Lukács György

Marx Karl

Trockij Lev

Lenin Vladimir Ilič