Open AccessP.B. Struve and G.V. Plekhanov: history of a certain polemics
Author(s) -
Y. B Golovin
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
izvestiâ mgtu "mami"
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2949-1428
pISSN - 2074-0530
DOI - 10.17816/2074-0530-67948
Subject(s) - marxist philosophy , dialectic , proletariat , criticism , scientific socialism , socialism , philosophy , epistemology , law , political science , communism , politics
The article is dedicated to a controversy between P.B. Struve and G.V. Plekhanov (the late XIX, early XX centuries) on the major problems of Marxist theory: the possibility and necessity of socialism, the theory of impoverishment of the proletariat, Marxist formula of controversy, the theory of social revolution, the laws of dialectics. The authors prove the validity of the Struve’s arguments in his criticism of the foundations of Marxism.