The Process of Democratization (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) - Hardcover

Lukács, Georg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791407616 ISBN 13: 9780791407615

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1992

Synopsis

Georg Lukacs's The Process of Democratization provides indispensable reading for an understanding of the revolution that swept Russia and Eastern Europe during 1989-1990. Lukacs, a spokesman for anti-Bolshevik communism, was the advance guard of anti-Stalinist reform. Written in the aftermath of the Prague Spring, his book was a precursor to many of the Gorbachev reforms.

Lukacs was the leading communist intellectual in the world until his death. During his last 15 years, he embarked upon a massive effort to revive Marxism as philosophy, as aesthetics, and as politics. The Process of Democratization was part of this attempt at a Marxist renaissance. He would probably be surprised to find that the Second Russian Revolution of 1989-1990 moved far beyond his reformism, overthrowing even the anti-Stalinist communism that he fought to retain.

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About the Author

Susanne Bernhardt is a translator and author residing in Berlin, Germany. Norman Levine is Adjunct Professor of History at the American Graduate School of International Management. He has written The Tragic Deception: Marx Contra Engels and Dialogue Within the Dialectic.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791407616
• ISBN 13: 9780791407615
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 179