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Arrigo Cervetto
(1964)
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Class Struggles and
the Revolutionary
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Class Struggles and
the Revolutionary
Party
1964
Without a
revolutionary theory,
there can be no
revolutionary
movement
Lenin affirmed that
without a
revolutionary theory,
there can be no
revolutionary
movement. His
statement seems
simple, but, in
reality, it is
anything but that
since the
revolutionary theory
is more complex than
it may seem to a
formal reading of
Lenin's political
texts. Leninist
theory is, precisely,
the outcome of a
profound scientific
analysis of social
reality. And, at the
same time, it is a
class instrument for
acting in a
historically
determined society's
economic structures
and political
superstructures. If
we study the
Leninist concept of
the party, we
immediately find
ourselves faced with
revolutionary theory
as Marxist science.
That is, we are
faced with the issue
of the scientific
foundations of
political action. n
other words, it is
not possible to
understand the
Leninist concept of
the party unless one
understands the
entire scientific
analysis of the
economic structure
that constitutes -
in Marx and Lenin -
its base. Removed
from its scientific
platform, the
Leninist concept of
the party would
appear to be a
monument - perhaps
even a gigantic one
- to political will.
It would be a
monument to the
theory of power, to
the theory of
organization, but it
would be a monument
without a pedestal.
This explains why
formal acceptance of
some Leninist theses
still does not
represent the
assimilation of the
revolutionary theory.
That is, it does not
represent
assimilation of the
general scientific
concept that is
Leninism's
foundation.
Consequently, the
Leninist concept of
the party is the
result of a Marxist
economic analysis
and without applying
this latter, we
cannot reach - even
on an organizational
level - the former.
Even Lenin's life
story as a Marxist
illustrates this
dialectical path.
Hence, the problem
to face the entire
issue of how to
assimilate the
revolutionary theory.
Class Struggles and
the Revolutionary
Party is the result
of an investigation
into these problems.
CONTENTS
Publisher's Foreword
Author's Preface to
the First Edition
Author's Preface to
the Fifth Edition
First Chapter
SOCIO-ECONOMIC
FORMATION AND THE
REVOLUTIONARY PARTY
Without a
Revolutionary Theory,
There Can Be no
Revolutionary
Movement
Capital’s Scientific
Methodology
The Skeleton and
Body of Marxist
Analysis
From Capital to the
Leninist Party
The Party, the
Science's Point of
Arrival
The Political
Description of
Social Relations
The Materialist
Formation of
Political
Consciousness
Poetical
Consciousness
Brought From the
Outside
The Science
Circulated and
Recognized Through
Action
The Revolutionary
Strategy in the
Economic Process
Political Analysis
as Social Analysis
The Science of die
Revolution
Second Chapter
THE WORKERS'
STRUGGLE
AND THE
REVOLUTIONARY PARTY
The Workers'
Coalition
The Working Class'
Political Struggle
The Party of the
Workers' Struggle
Wage Struggles
Strike Struggles
The Two Aspects of
Workers' Spontaneity
Consciousness'
Embryonic Form
The Influence of
Bourgeois Ideology
How the Party Fights
Spontaneity
The Strike: A School
of War
The Strike: A
Natural Economic
Phenomenon
The Proletariat's
Natural Superiority
The Strike: A
Proletarian Tool
The Interconnection
of Strikes
Strike Statistics
Radicalizing the
Struggles
The Trade-Union
Issue
The Third Period of
Lenin's Theorization
The Social Violence
of Democracy
More Democracy, More
Violence
The "School of
Communism"
The Struggle for
Revolutionary
Influence in the
Trade Unions
Revolutionary Work
in Reactionary
Trade Unions
Third Chapter
THE REVOLUTIONARY
PARTY
AND REVOLUTIONARY
STRATEGY
Trotsky's Definition
Trotsky's Strategy |
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