George Novack’s Understanding History

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1 Novack, Polemics in Marxist Philosophy (Pathfinder Press: New York, 1978), p. 37.

UNEVEN AND COMBINED DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORY

1 Lenin, “Letters from Afar”, Collected Works, Vol. 23 (Progress Publishers: Moscow, 1964), p. 302. (The translation is slightly different to that given here.)

2 Trotsky, The History of the Russian Revolution (Monad Press: New York, 1980), Vol. 1, p. 5.

3 Plekhanov, Selected Philosophical Works, Vol. I (Progress Publishers: Moscow, 1977), p. 635.

4 Trotsky, The History of the Russian Revolution, Vol. 1, p. 5.

5 Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed (Pathfinder Press: New York, 1972), p. 299.

6 Ibid., p. 300.

IS NATURE DIALECTICAL?

1 The stenograph of this debate was published as Marxisme et Existentialisme (Libraire Plon: Paris, 1962).

TROTSKY’S VIEWS ON DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM

1 Trotsky’s contributions to the theoretical debate are collected in the book In Defence of Marxism (Pathfinder Press: New York, 1973); Burnham’s article “Science and Style” is included as an appendix.

2 In Defence of Marxism, p. 196.

3 Ibid., pp. 78-79.

4 Ibid., p. 79.

5 Ibid., p. 74.

6 Ibid., p. 51.

7 Ibid. p. 51.

8 Trotsky, “Radio, Science, Technology and Society”, Problems of Everyday Life (Pathfinder Press: New York, 1973), pp. 252-253.

9 Trotsky, My Life (Pathfinder Press: New York, 1970), p. 122.

10 Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects (Pathfinder Press: New York, 1969), p. 64.

11 Ibid., p. 65.

12 Ibid., p. 63.

13 Trotsky, Marxism in Our Time (Pathfinder Press: New York, 1970), pp. 8-9.

14 Ibid., p. 13.

15 In Defence of Marxism, p. 129.

16 Ibid., pp. 118-119.

17 Ibid., p. 119.

18 Trotsky, The History of the Russian Revolution (Monad Press: New York, 1980), Vol. 1, p. 52.

19 Trotsky, “What Is National Socialism?”, The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany (Pathfinder Press: New York, 1971), p. 399.

20 The History of the Russian Revolution, Vol. 1, p. 52.

21 Ibid., p. 95.

22 Trotsky, The Case of Leon Trotsky (Merit Publishers: New York, 1968), p. 581.

23 Trotsky, The History of the Russian Revolution, Vol. 1, p. 93.

24 Trotsky, My Life, pp. 334-335.

25 Trotsky, “Testament”, Writings of Leon Trotsky (1939-40) (Pathfinder Press: New York, 1973), pp. 158-159.

26 Ibid., p. 159.

APPENDIX: EXISTENTIALISM AND MARXISM

1 Sartre, The Problem of Method (Methuen; London, 1964), p. 161.

2 Marx et al, Marxism, Socialism and Religion (Resistance Books: Chippendale, 2001), p. 22.

3 Anderson, In The Tracks of Historical Materialism (Verso Books: London, 1983), p. 14.

4 Althusser, For Marx (Pantheon; New York, 1969), p. 108.

5 Marx, “Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy ”, Selected Works, Vol. 1 (Progress Publishers: Moscow, 1969), p. 503.

6 Quoted in Callinicos, Against Postmodernism (Polity Press: London, 1989), p. 72.