Dialettica e rivoluzione nel pensiero di Karl Korsch.

The paper aims to highlight the importance – and problematic nature – of the relationship between materialism and dialectics within the theoretical-political reinterpretation of Marxism proposed by Karl Korsch in the early 1920s. According to Korsch, from the standpoint of a genuine “materialist dialectic” should follow a thorough critique of the theoretical and philosophical foundations of what could be called “the orthodox Marxism” of the Second International. As both critical and revolutionary, the dialectic represents the core of Marx’s theory and thus the starting point of a science able to achieve an understanding of the “totality” of bourgeois society, pursuing at the same time its practical overthrow. However, Korsch’s theorisation of an “immediate” link between the theory of Marxist dialectic and the reality of proletarian revolution hinders in fact a coherent analysis of the objective conditions of the latter and, as a consequence, a suitable theory of transition from capitalism to socialism in the age of imperialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]