{"title":"Rosdolsky’s Methodology and Lange’s Revisionism","authors":"Raya Dunayevskaya, Franklin Dmitryev","doi":"10.1163/9789004383678_020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004383678_020","url":null,"abstract":"Among non-Stalinist but leadership-conscious Marxists, there is hardly a work that has gained the acclaim accorded to The Making of Marx’s “Capital” by Roman Rosdolsky. Published in Germany in 1968, it has now been brought out by Pluto Press in an English translation for the fantastic sum of $35. It is as if the price itself testifies to its importance. If not a “classic,” it is, after all, about the only available lengthy, serious commentary on Marx’s Grundrisse, which has only recently been published in English for the first time. Roman Rosdolsky, a well-known Marxist theoretician, tells us that ever since 1948, when he obtained one of the rare copies of the Grundrisse then available, he has been studying that “Rough Draft” of Capital and set himself a twofold task: (1) to write a commentary, or more precisely, an exposition of the new discovery “mainly in Marx’s own words”; and (2) “to make a scientific evaluation of some of the new findings which it contained” (p. xi). The preoccupation with the latter comprises Roman Rosdolsky’s original contribution. To it he devotes Parts One and Seven—“Introduction,” i.e., mainly the origin and structure of the work; and “Critical Excursus.” To these 225 pages should really be added some 35 pages (Part Six, “Conclusion”) which summarize what he found in the exposition and commentary of the work.1 Since, as he correctly notes, “Of all the problems in Marx’s economic theory the most neglected has been that of his method both in general and, specifically, in relation to Hegel” (p. xi), methodology is the underlying motif not only of his “critical excursus,” but the reason for writing the whole of the 581 pages. I wish I could report that a genuine contribution to dialectical methodology had been made by Rosdolsky. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. If there is anything that is totally missing in his massive study, it is dialectics. To the extent to which he does make a contribution to the","PeriodicalId":121122,"journal":{"name":"Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132894312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hobsbawm and Rubel on the Marx Centenary, but Where is Marx?","authors":"Raya Dunayevskaya","doi":"10.1163/9789004383678_014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004383678_014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":121122,"journal":{"name":"Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117142888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Theory of Alienation: Marx’s Debt to Hegel","authors":"Raya Dunayevskaya","doi":"10.1163/9789004383678_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004383678_004","url":null,"abstract":"The topic “Marx’s Debt to Hegel,” is neither merely academic, nor does it pertain only to the historical period of Marx’s lifetime. From the Hungarian revolt to the African revolutions, from the student demonstrators in Japan to the Negro revolution in the U.S., the struggle for freedom has transformed reality and pulled Hegelian dialectics out of the academic halls and philosophy books onto the living stage of history. It is true that this transformation of Hegel into a contemporary has been via Marx. It is no accident, however, that Russian Communism’s attack on Marx has been via Hegel. Because they recognize in the so-called mystical Absolute “the negation of the negation,” the revolution against themselves, Hegel remains so alive and worrisome to the Russian rulers today. Ever since Andrei Zhdanov in 1947 demanded that the Russian philosophers find nothing short of “a new dialectical law,” or, rather, declared “criticism and self-criticism” to be that alleged new dialectical law to replace the Hegelian and objective law of development through contradiction,1 up to the 21st Congress of the Russian Communist Party where the special philosophic sessions declared Nikita Khrushchev to be “the true humanist,” the attack on both the young Marx and the mystic Hegel has been continuous. It reached a climax in the 1955 attacks on Marx’s Early Essays2 in theory. In actuality it came to life as the Sino-Soviet Pact3 to put down the Hungarian Revolution. One thing these intellectual bureaucrats sense correctly: Hegel’s Concept of the Absolute and the international struggle for freedom are not as far apart as would appear on the surface.","PeriodicalId":121122,"journal":{"name":"Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132126417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}