Philosophical Arabesques by Nikolai Bukharin (PDF)

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Bukharin’s Philosophical Arabesques was written while he was imprisoned in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, facing trial on charges of treason, and later awaiting execution after he was found guilty. After the death of Lenin, Bukharin cooperated with Stalin for a time. Once Stalin’s supremacy was assured he began eliminating all potential rivals. For Bukharin, the process was to end with his confession before the Soviet court, facing the threat that his young family would be killed along with him if he did not.While awaiting his death, Bukharin wrote prolifically. He considered Philosophical Arabesques as the most important of his prison writings. In its pages, he covers the full range of issues in Marxist philosophy—the sources of knowledge, the nature of truth, freedom and necessity, the relationship of Hegelian and Marxist dialectic. The project constitutes a defense of the genuine legacy of Lenin’s Marxism against the use of his memory to legitimate totalitarian power. Consigned to the Kremlin archives for a half-century after Bukharin’s execution, this work is now being published for the first time in English. It will be an essential reference work for scholars of Marxism and the Russian revolution and a landmark in the history of prison writing.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author NIKOLAI BUKHARIN was one of the most talented of the leaders of the Bolshevik Party that led the Russian Revolution of 1917, a leader of the Soviet government, and the author of important theoretical works on Marxist theory. He was executed for treason in 1938.

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⭐As a (currently independent!) communist, I have always had a soft spot for the author and believe that his fate sealed the fate of so-called real existing socialism, the extermination of leading communists like Bukharin, Kamaniev, Zinoviev and many, many more. On reading this collection, I felt that I was seeing some of Bukharin’s earlier “Left Communist” leanings, which was refreshing.

⭐Excellent essays, absolutely Bukharin at his best, and philosophically much more mature and, frankly, Marxist. Sadly this was the end of his life, and his orevious contributions, beyond a few gems, do not stand up to this excellent tour de force that covers everything still relevent in our cirrent epoch of crisis—the mystical, the occult, the idealistic.I give the printing only 3 stars because it is inferior. Several pages were not separated, and the binding is flimsy.

⭐Not sure what all the hype was about, a lot of philosophical calisthenics.

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