Toward a dialectic of philosophy and organization / by Eugene Gogol.

• Author: Walker Gogol, Eugene.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences 45.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Toward a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization is an exploration of Hegel’s dialectic and its radical re-creation in Marx’s thought within the context of revolutions and revolutionary organizations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Does a dialectic in philosophy itself bring forth a dial...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction: Philosophy, Organization, and the Work of Raya Dunayevskaya
• Prologue: The Dialectic in Philosophy Itself
• Marx’s Concept of Organization: From the Silesian Weavers’ Uprising to the First Years of the International Workingmen’s Association
• The Commune of Paris, 1871: Mass Spontaneity in Action and Thought Fused with the Responsibility of the Revolutionary Intellectual: The Two-War Road Between Marx and the Commune
• The Second International, The German Social Democracy, and Engels after Marx—Organization without Marx’s Organization of Thought
• The 1905 Russian Revolution: Mass Proletarian Self-Activity and Its Relation to the Organizational Thought of Marxist Revolutionaries
• The Russian Revolution of 1917 and Beyond: Workers’ Forms of Organisation: Lenin and the Bolsheviks
• Out of the Russia Revolution: Legacy and Critique— Luxemburg, Pannekoek, Trotsky
• Organizational Forms from the Spanish Revolution, 1936–37
• The Hungarian Workers’ Councils in the Revolution: A Movement from Practice that is a Form of Theory Prelude: East Germany, 1953
• Can “Absolute Knowing” in Hegel’s Phenomenology Speak to a Dialectic of Organization and Philosophy?
• Critique of the Gotha Program: Marx’s Critique of a So-Called Socialist Program; his Projection of Communism; What is its Meaning for Today?
• Lenin and Hegel: The Profound Philosophic Breakthrough that Failed to Encompass Revolutionary Organization
• Hegel’s Critique of the Third Attitude to Objectivity—Its Relation to Organization
• Moments in the Development of Dunayevskaya’s Marxist-Humanism
• Moments in the Development of Dunayevskaya’s Marxist-Humanism
• Bibliography
• Index.