The centenary of the October Revolution took place in a cultural and political climate clearly unfavorable to free intellectual confrontation and very unwilling to evaluate reasons and inheritances of an event that, whatever our subjective judgment, represents a radical change in the course of human history, which you cannot ignore. This ended up conditioning any analytical attempt that sought to approach the biography of the Russian revolutionary in a “disinterested” way, making it impossible to evaluate without prejudice the whole of his intellectual and political production. However, placing Lenin in a showcase of teratology ends up hampering a scientific investigation of the importance of his theory; therefore, to understand the how and why of a theory that, in addition to Russian events, opened the doors of distant and peripheral continents to Marxism, enabling revolutionary processes not even imaginable according to the canons of the old Western Marxism, tied to the paradigms of positivism deterministic.

Lenin e a revolução

Fresu, Giovanni
2021-01-01

Abstract

The centenary of the October Revolution took place in a cultural and political climate clearly unfavorable to free intellectual confrontation and very unwilling to evaluate reasons and inheritances of an event that, whatever our subjective judgment, represents a radical change in the course of human history, which you cannot ignore. This ended up conditioning any analytical attempt that sought to approach the biography of the Russian revolutionary in a “disinterested” way, making it impossible to evaluate without prejudice the whole of his intellectual and political production. However, placing Lenin in a showcase of teratology ends up hampering a scientific investigation of the importance of his theory; therefore, to understand the how and why of a theory that, in addition to Russian events, opened the doors of distant and peripheral continents to Marxism, enabling revolutionary processes not even imaginable according to the canons of the old Western Marxism, tied to the paradigms of positivism deterministic.
2021
O centenário da Revolução de Outubro transcorreu num clima cultural e político claramente desfavorável ao livre confronto intelectual e bem pouco disposto a avaliar razões e heranças de um evento que, qualquer que seja nosso julgamento subjetivo, representa uma mudança radical de curso da história da humanidade, da qual não se pode ignorar. Isto acabou por condicionar toda tentativa analítica que buscasse abordar de maneira “desinteressada” a biografia do revolucionário russo, impossibilitando a avaliação sem preconceitos do conjunto de sua produção intelectual e política. Todavia, situar Lenin num mostruário de teratologia acaba dificultando uma investigação científica da importância de sua teoria; por conseguinte, de compreender o como e o porquê de uma teoria que, para além dos acontecimentos russos, abriu ao marxismo as portas de continentes distantes e periféricos, possibilitando processos revolucionários sequer imagináveis segundo os cânones do velho marxismo ocidental, preso aos paradigmas do positivismo determinista.
Historical materialism; Dialetic; Revolution;
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