Toward a Dialectic of Philosophyand Organization -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Philosophy, Organization, and the Work of Raya Dunayevskaya -- I. The Contradictory Reality of the Present Moment and Its Relation to a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization -- II. The Project of Dunayevskaya: Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy -- III. The Form for the Present Study -- Prologue: The Dialectic in Philosophy Itself -- I. What Is Hegel's Journey of Absolute Spirit? -- II. Why a Negation of the Negation? -- III. Can We See Hegel's Absolutes, Not as a Closed Totality, but As New Beginning? -- PART ONE: ON SPONTANEOUS FORMS OF ORGANIZATION VS. VANGUARD PARTIES -- 1. Marx's Concept of Organization: From the Silesian Weavers' Uprising to the First Years of the International Workingmen's Association -- I. A Preliminary Note-Revolutionary Organization and the Organization of Thought -- II. 1843-52: Critique of Ideas/Tendencies, and the Movement of the Workers -- III. From the Early 1850s to the Early 1860s: A Brief Note on Marx's Organization of Thought and the "Party" -- IV. A New Organizational Form: Marx and the International Workingmen's Association -- 2. The Commune of Paris, 1871: Mass Spontaneity in Action and Thought Fused with the Responsibility of the Revolutionary Intellectual: The Two-War Road Between Marx and the Commune -- I. A Non-State State: The Paris Commune as a Form of Workers' Rule -- II. The Civil War in France- Drafts and Address, and the French Edition of Capital -- III. The Commune Deepens Marx's Concept of Organization-The First International After 1871 -- Appendix: Marx, Excerpts from First and Second Drafts of The Civil War in France.

3. The Second International, The German Social Democracy, and Engels after Marx-Organization without Marx's Organization of Thought -- I. A Preliminary Note on Lassalle -- II. Fetishism of Organization: The Second International and the Germany Social Democracy -- III. Engels' Relation to German Social Democracy and to Marx's Marxism: What Tactics? What Theory? What Philosophy? -- Appendix: "The Interlude that Never Ended Organizationally" -- 4. The 1905 Russian Revolution: Mass Proletarian Self-Activity and Its Relation to the Organizational Thought of Marxist Revolutionaries -- I. 1905 in Life and in Books: New Forms of Struggle -- New Forms of Organization -- II. Trotsky, Lenin, Luxemburg: Attitudes Toward and Theoretical Ramifications of 1905, Particularly with Regard to Revolutionary Organization -- 5. The Russian Revolution of 1917 and Beyond: Workers' Forms of Organisation: Lenin and the Bolsheviks -- I. February-October, 1917: Forms of Organization From Below -- Developments and Struggles Within Bolshevism -- II. Russia post-October: Workers, Bolsheviks and the State-New Beginnings and Grave Contradictions in the Revolution -- 6. Out of the Russia Revolution: Legacy and Critique- Luxemburg, Pannekoek, Trotsky -- I. Luxemburg and Two Revolutions-Russia, 1917-18 -- Germany, 1918-19 -- II. Pannekoek's Council Communism -- III. In Exile: A Brief Note on Trotsky's Concept of Revolutionary Organization and View of Proletarian Subjectivity -- 7. Organizational Forms from the Spanish Revolution, 1936-37 -- I. The Revolution Begins and Develops -- II. The Communist Party Works to Dismantle the Revolution.

8. The Hungarian Workers' Councils in the Revolution: A Movement from Practice that is a Form of Theory Prelude: East Germany, 1953 -- I. Hungary: The First Days -- II. The Turning Point -- III. The Counter-Revolution and the Proletarian Response -- IV. Postscript: Brief Notes on East Europe, post-Hungary 1956-Resistance-in-Permanence -- Contradictions Within -- PART TWO: HEGEL AND MARX -- 9. Can "Absolute Knowing" in Hegel's Phenomenology Speak to a Dialectic of Organization and Philosophy? -- I. A Note on Hegel's Method in Absolute Knowledge -- II. Marx's "Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic" -- III. Spirit's Journey in Absolute Knowledge: Externalization (Entäusserung) and Recollection/Inwardization (Erinnerung) -- IV. The Dialectic in Philosophy Itself: Does It Bring Forth a Dialectic of Organization?-A Reading of Absolute Knowing from Dunayevskaya -- 10. Critique of the Gotha Program: Marx's Critique of a So-Called Socialist Program -- his Projection of Communism -- What is its Meaning for Today? -- Appendix: Marx on Necessity, Freedom, Time and Labor -- PART THREE: HEGEL AND LENIN -- 11. Lenin and Hegel: The Profound Philosophic Breakthrough that Failed to Encompass Revolutionary Organization -- I. Introduction -- II. A Preliminary Note on Lenin's Philosophic Exploration of Hegel -- III. A Brief Survey of Dunayevskaya's Explorations, Pre-1986, of Lenin's Hegelian Vantage Point. -- IV. Dunayevskaya's 'Changed Perception of Lenin's Philosophic Ambivalence': Fusing a mid-1980s Vantage Point with a 1953 Philosophic Breakthrough -- V. Dunayevskaya's New Reading of Lenin: Fusing 1986-87 Preceptions with Her 1953 Philosophic Moment -- VI. Organizational Ramifications -- 12. Hegel's Critique of the Third Attitude to Objectivity-Its Relation to Organization.

I. Introduction: The Three Attitudes to Objectivity -- II. Dunayevskaya's 1961 Reading of the Third Attitude to Objectivity -- III. Dunayevskaya's 1986 Reading of the Third Attitude to Objectivity -- PART FOUR: DIALECTICS OF PHILOSOPHY AND ORGANIZATION IN THE POST-WORLD WAR II WORLD: THE WORK OF RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA -- 13. Moments in the Development of Dunayevskaya's Marxist-Humanism -- I. A Preliminary Note on War and Revolution as Turning Points for Radical Thought: The Moment of the Theory of State-Capitalism as Needed Ground for Marxist-Humanism -- II. Dunayevskaya's Letters on Hegel's Absolutes, May 12 and 20 1953: "The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism" -- III. The Organization of Thought which Determines Organizational Life: Developing Marxist-Humanism and News and Letters Committees -- IV. Dunayevskaya's Presentation on Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy, June 1, 1987-A New Philosophic Category and a Challenge for News and Letters Praxis -- Appendices: 1. Dunayevskaya Letter on Meeting a Cameroonian Revolutionary (Excerpt) -- 2. Dunayevskaya in 1949-50 Miners' General Strike -- 3. Preamble to the Original Constitution of News and Letters Committees, 1956 -- PART FIVE: CONCLUSION -- 14. What Philosophic-Organizational Vantage Point Is Needed? -- I. Recent Challenges to Hegel's Dialectics of Negativity -- II. What Is the Dialectic of Marx's Capital? -- III. Once Again Hegel's Dialectic of Negativity-Its Concretization/Praxis as Organizational Expression -- Its Meaning for Today -- Bibliography -- Index.