Published posthumously in Italian, The Communist Question is a continuation of the discussion that began in Losurdo’s Western Marxism. Losurdo continues his analysis of the seemingly inescapable crisis, following the dissolution of the USSR, afflicting Marxism in the Western countries. Losurdo asserts that this outcome is not “destiny” and unapologetically asserts the legacy of the Soviet period and the necessity of Marxism as an approach. Moreover, he continues his analysis of Marxism to identify what it is capable of leading to in our immediate future.

Now Iskra Books are publishing it in English. It’s gonna be available in November.

  • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 个月前

    There was a huge messianic trend in newly emerged Soviet Russia right after the revolution where a large portion of the revolutionaries were rebelling and tearing down thier membership cards and even resorting to sabotage etc. once they realized that they won’t achieve stateless communist utopia any time soon. Basically they were saying “this is not what we fought for”. Big part of the civil war (apart from the foreign intervention and the domestic bourgeois opposition) was the “disappointed communists” trying to “finish what they started”.

    This is a huge misrepresentation of the conflict between Bolsheviks, Socialist-Revolutionaries and other leftists.

    • Ember_NE@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 个月前

      Losurdo brings up the messianic point in his book on Stalin as well. He likes to tie it to Hegels critique of the french revolution regarding “abstract freedom” which is violated by any framework of “concrete freedom”. In part it might be tying a pretty ribbon on the issue, but I’m not sure and don’t think he means to say that this was the only diagreement with other left groups