New Revolutionary Marxism

  Karl Korsch's Anti-Dogmatic Marxism   Nildo Viana   Karl Korsch is one of the most important thinkers in the history of Marxism.  His contribution to the rescue of Marx's thought, deformed by social democracy and Bolshevism, and his discussion of materialist dialectics, as well as other aspects of his thinking, are permanent contributions to Marxist theory.  This extremely important role for the development of Marxism, however, did not receive due recognition, obviously due to the predominance of pseudomarxism expressed in social democracy and Bolshevism, two positions criticized by him and in visible contradiction with the same.  His works were fundamental to carry out another interpretation of Marx's thought and to deepen aspects of Marxism and one of the elements that stands out in his conception is the search for overcoming dogmatism.  In this article we will briefly discuss his thinking and highlight what he called “Non-dogmatic Marxism”  ,...

  Paresh Chattopadhyay sobre as idéias econômicas de Lenin, em oposição ao socialismo de Marx. Conteúdo econômico do socialismo em Lenin É o mesmo que em Marx? Paresh Chattopadhyay Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay), 26 de janeiro de 1991.   In the following lines we propose to discuss critically how Lenin conceived of socialism as a new form of society and to what extent his concept of socialism could be considered Marxian. As the title of the paper indicates, we shall be concerned here basically with the economic content of socialism considered purely as a theoretical category. It should be emphasised that we are not concerned here with the (practical) policies Lenin pursued, before or after October 1917, towards the realisation of socialism. Ours is an exercise in pure theory. In what follows, Section I summarises Lenin's main ideas on socialism's economic content, Section II examines these ideas in the light of Marx's writings on the subject, while Section III con...