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Algebra of Revolution: Marxism and Hegelianism of Rosa Luxemburg

In this presentation I will discuss Lukács' claim that the fundamental studies which inaugurate the theoretical rebirth of Marxism are Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital and Anti-Critique and briefly demonstrate why we can read Luxemburg as Hegelian. Even though Luxemburg never elaborated a materialist theory of dialectics, she saw that it was "the cutting weapon of the Hegelian dialectic which allowed [Marx] to make such a splendid critical butchery". While criticising Kantian and Neokantian philosophical tendencies in social democracy movement and their deflection into a bourgeois "science", Luxemburg defends the achievements of Hegelian philosophy and links them to Marx’s theory. Moving from these premises, György Lukács in his "The Marxism of Rosa Luxemburg" uses Luxemburg’s works as examples of denouncing the methods and questions of "vulgarised Marxism" and the "trivialisation of Marxism". Lukács presents the idea of the category of totality as the bearer of the principle of revolution in science, pointing to the fact that it is not the primacy of economic motives to explain historical processes which distinguishes Marxism from bourgeois thought, but the point of view of totality. Exactly in these lines of understanding Lukács analyses Luxemburg as Marxist and philosopher of totality, believing that she is one of his crucial allies in stressing the indispensability of the Hegelian dialectic for revolutionary Marxian thought.

Lukács, Dialectic, Marxism, Luxemburg

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