Biblioteca / 1990-1999
Andrzej Walicki. Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom. The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
xiv, 641 páginas.
Contents
Introduction
1 – Marx as Philosopher of Freedom
Preliminary Remarks
Civil and Political Liberty: A Confrontation with Liberalism
The Story of Self-Enriching Alienation: A General Outline
The Paris Manuscripts: Human Essence Lost and Regained
The German Ideology: The Division of Labor and the Myth of Human Identity
Grundrisse: The World Market as Alienated Universalism
Self-Enriching Alienation in Capital and the Abandonment of Youthful Optimism
The Vision of the Future: The Transition Period and the Final Ideal
Capitalism and Freedom in the Post-Marxian Sociological Tradition: The Case of Marx Versus Simmel
2 – Engels and «Scientific Socialism»
The Problem of «Engelsian Marxism»
From Pantheism to Communism
Political Economy and Communist Utopia
«Historical Necessity» in the World of Nations
Freedom as «Necessity Understood»
From Freedom Lost to Freedom … Regained?
The Dual Legacy
3 – Variants of «Necessitarian» Marxism
Karl Kautsky: From the «Historical Necessity» of Communism to the «Historical Necessity» of Democracy
Georgii Plekhanov: «Historical Necessity» as Utopian Ideal
Rosa Luxemburg, or Revolutionary Amor Fati
4 – Leninism: From «Scientific Socialism» to Totalitarian Communism
Lenin’s Tragedy of Will and Fate
Lenin’s Critique of «Bourgeois Freedom» and the Russian Populist Heritage
The Workers’ Movement and the Party
The Destruction of «Nomocracy» and the Legitimization of Violence
The Partisan Principle in Literature and Philosophy
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the State
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Law
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Economic Utopia
5 – From Totalitarian Communism to Communist Totalitarianism
Leninism and Stalinism: The Controversy over the Continuity Thesis
Stalinist Marxism as a Total View of the World
«Dual Consciousness» and Totalitarian
«Ideocracy»
6 – The Dismantling of Stalinism: Detotalitarization and Decommunization
Preliminary Remarks
Marxist Freedom and Communist Totalitarianism
The Phases and Factors of Detotalitarization and Decommunization
Gorbachev’s Perestroika and the Final Rejection of Communist Freedom