Lenin, (Philosophical Notebooks)

[p036] Lenin’s Philosophical Notebooks By Cliff Slaughter developing theory required to achieve consciousness of its historic role and the necessary strategy of class struggle. In reading Lenin, therefore, our aim is not to find recipes for our present problems, but to gain an insight into the method used by this outstanding thinker and political leader, With the use of this method Lenin made important discoveries about the nature of world capitalism and about the social relations and ideologies of his own time, particularly in Russia. These discoveries have received more study than the method itself, and yet Lenin’s use of the dialectical method was the key to his ability to analyse new stages in economic and _ political development, and to his mastery of political strategy and tactics. Future articles in LABourR REVIEW will take up some of Lenin’s specific contributions in various fields. Here we are concerned primarily with his method of approach; all the volumes published so far could be used as illustrations of Lenin’s method, but