Lenin and the Conditions for Socialist Transition

ABSTRACT

The organic crisis of capital carries ever greater risks of degenerating social human life into some form of highly destructive technological barbarism. But the advances of science and technology posit the question of socialist transition, that is, of the historical process of overcoming capitalism and of capital itself. A century after the Russian revolution, the material conditions for transition are much more present in the world, even if cultural and spiritual conditions are lacking. The analysis of the reasons why the socialist transition did not even begin in Lenin’s time can be of great importance for this reflection and once again gain decisive importance for the future of humanity.

KEYWORDS:

• Russian revolution
• socialist transition
• the New Economic Policy
• Lenin

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Notes on Contributor

Marcos Del Roio is Titular of Political Sciences, UNESP—São Paulo University State, Brazil. He is author of several books and articles about working-class movement and history of Marxism, especially study on Gramsci’s thought at this time. He is author of The Prism of Gramsci: The Political Formula of the United Front (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016). He coordinates the International Gramsci Society in Brazil and is the president of the Astrojildo Pereira Institute.

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Funding

This work was supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tacnológico - CNPq [305907/2015-8].