Plekhanov

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani almost always brings up Plekhanov through Lenin's verdict: according to Lenin, Plekhanov did not understand Marx because he had not read Hegel, and more precisely the Science of Logic12. He repeats this verdict in varied contexts: a session devoted to Michel Clouscard, and the tributes to Jacques D'Hondt and Domenico Losurdo3. Each time, he uses it to stress that reading Marx depends on reading Hegel. In L'Odyssée du philosophe, he links Plekhanov to the Marxists who read Marx without knowing Hegel's Logic4. In the session devoted to Lenin, he presents him as a "great classic" of the reading of Marx before Lenin5. He thus places him in an earlier stage of the interpretation of Marxism, from which Lenin sets himself apart by returning to Hegel. From one session to the next, from 2015 to 2021, what he says about Plekhanov stays the same.

1. 1Dominique Pagani sur Michel Clouscard - Les chemins de la praxis 2/28 Dec 2015 · 6:05
2. 2Hommage à Jacques D'Hondt (1)2 Aug 2016 · 47:05
3. 3Hommage à Domenico Losurdo2 Jul 2018 · 11:00
4. 4#5.2 L’Odyssée du philosophe : La pensée révolutionnaire21 Nov 2018 · 1:44:06
5. 5#2 Lénine ou les ailes du rêve18 Apr 2021 · 14:39

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.