Russia: From Proletarian Revolution To State-capitalist Counter-revolution

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, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s 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 Dunayevskaya’s thought, Marxist-Humanist philosophy, environmental justice, climate change, and other social issues.

• Editorial Note and Acknowledgements ... ix Introduction ... 1Eugene Gogol, Terry Moon and Franklin Dmitryevi The Present Moment and the Russian Revolutionii 1914–1917: War and Revolution as Testing/Turning Pointsiii An American Revolutionary Born Out of the Russian Revolutioniv The Form and Content of the Present VolumeThe Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism Part 1Philosophic Preparation for Revolution: The Significance of Lenin’s Hegel Notebooks 1 Translation of and Commentary on Lenin’s “Abstract of Hegel’s Science of Logic” ... 21Three Letters to C.L.R. James in the Process of Translating Lenin’s “Abstract of Hegel’s Science of Logic”Notes on a Series of Lectures: Lenin on Hegel’s Science of LogicHegelian Leninism Telos ConferenceFirst English Language Translation of Excerpts from Lenin’s “Abstract of Hegel’s Science of Logic” 2 Dunayevskaya’s Changed Perception of Lenin’s Philosophic Ambivalence, 1986–87 ... 109Prologue: Lenin as Seen in Excerpts from Dunayevskaya’s May 12, 1953Letter on Hegel’s AbsolutesLetter to Non-Marxist Hegel Scholar Louis DupréExcerpts from Presentations, Letters, NotesIn Lieu of Minutes of News and Letters Committees ResidentEditorial Board Meeting of August 5, 1986, on Executive SessionPresentation by Dunayevskaya to the Resident Editorial Board on December 1, 1986“The Year of Only 8 Months,” Jan 3, 1987Talking to Myself Document, January 21, 1987Presentation on the Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy, June 1, 1987 Part 2On the Meaning of Lenin’s “Great Divide in Marxism”; Contrast with Trotsky, Bukharin, Luxemburg 3 Lenin on Self-determination of Nations and on Organization After His Philosophic Notebooks ... 127The Break in Lenin’s ThoughtWhat Was New on the Party Question in the Great Divide and After: The Relationship of the Masses to the PartyThe Shock of Recognition and the Philosophic Ambivalence of Lenin 4 On Trotsky ... 142Leon Trotsky as Man and as Theoretician 5 On Bukharin ... 160Lenin vs. Bukharin: The Dialectic and Its Methodological Enemy, Abstract Revolutionism 6 On Luxemburg 167Luxemburg and Lenin: Anti-war Internationalism; Contrasting Views on National Self-Determination—The “Junius” PamphletLuxemburg’s View of the Russian Revolution 7 On Women Revolutionaries in Russia ... 174In Memoriam: Natalia Sedova Trotsky. Role of Women in RevolutionRussia, February 1917; Germany, January 1919; and Rosa Luxemburg Part 3What Happens After?—Lenin 1917–1923 8 The Trade Union Debate and Lenin’s Will ... 187The Trade Union DebateLenin and His New Concept: Party Work to Be Checked by Non-party MassesLenin’s Will Part 4Russia’s Transformation into Opposite: The Theory of State-Capitalism 9 The Development of State-Capitalist Theory in the 1940s ... 207The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a Capitalist SocietyAn Analysis of Russian EconomyLabor and SocietyIs Russia Part of the Collectivist Epoch of Society?A New Revision of Marxian EconomicsThe Nature of the Russian Economy Part 5From State-Capitalist Theory to Marxist-Humanism, 1950s–1980s Introduction: From the State-Capitalist Tendency to the Birth of a Marxist-Humanist Organization—New Stage of Production, New Stage of Cognition, New Kind of Organization ... 313 10 On Stalin ... 317 11 The Beginning of the End of Russian Totalitarianism ... 325East Germany, June 17, 1953The Revolt in the Slave Labor Camps in VorkutaSpontaneity of Action and Organization of Thought: In Memoriam of the Hungarian Revolution 12 Post-Stalin Russia ... 333Without a Past and Without a Future [On Khrushchev]After the 20th Congress of the Russian Communist Party: Where is Russia Going?Tito’s TurnaboutAndropov’s Ascendancy Reflects Final State of State-Capitalism’s DegeneracyReagan, Gorbachev in Iceland: All Things Fall Apart 13 On Mao’s China ... 354Only Freedom Can Solve the Crisis“Let 100 Flowers Bloom…But Only One Party Rule”The “Philosophy” of the Yenan Period: Mao Perverts LeninSino-Indian War Reveals Relationship of Ideology to State-Capitalist ImperialismIndonesian Communism: A Case of World Communism’s Decomposition 14 The Sino-Soviet Split ... 378Can There Be War between Russia and China? The Non-Viability ofState-CapitalismSplintered World Communism 15 The Cuban Revolution and What Happens After? ... 398The Cuban Revolution: The Year AfterIdeology and Revolution: A Study of What Happens After…The Double Tragedy of Che GuevaraShortcut to Revolution or Long Road to Tragedy? On Regis Debray’s Revolution in the Revolution 16 State-Capitalism as a “New Stage of World Capitalism” vs. The Humanism of Marx ... 416The Humanism of Marx is the Basic Foundation for Anti-Stalinism TodayThe New Stage of World Capitalism: State-Capitalism“Culture,” Science and State-CapitalismState-Capitalism and the Dialectic 17 Battle of Ideas ... 438Milovan Djilas’ New ClassIntellectuals in the Age of State-Capitalism [On Herbert Marcuse’s Soviet Marxism]Western Intellectuals Help K[hrushchev], Inc. Rebury Lenin’sPhilosophic 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)]Lukács’ Philosophic DimensionTony Cliff Degrades Lenin as Theoretician Bibliography ... 471Index ... 480