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(2008) Dialectics for the new century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Dialectics and revolution

Trotsky, Lenin, Lukács

Michael Löwy

pp. 151-162

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.

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230583818_11

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Löwy, M. (2008)., Dialectics and revolution: Trotsky, Lenin, Lukács, in B. Ollman & T. Smith (eds.), Dialectics for the new century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 151-162.

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