Lenin e a revolução

Fresu, Giovanni

2021-01-01

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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.