Lenin A Study on the Unity of His Thought

In sharp contrast to contemporary and later characterizations of Lenin either as a cynical and shallow opportunist or as a source of ready-made dogmas and formulae. Georg Lukacs has restored to Lenin's thought its true intellectual and political stature. Bringing to bear the concepts of totality, concreteness and the dialectic that he had developed in his masterwork History and Class Consciousness, Lukacs convincingly demonstrated that the key conceptual innovations in Lenin's political thought constituted fundamental ruptures with the mechanical fatalism that had hitherto characterized "official" Marxism