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Main Currents of Marxism

The status of a handbook which Kolakowski accords to his three-volume work on the history of Marxism underemphasizes both its importance and purpose to present the philosophy of praxis as the core of Marxism. Yet, Kolakowski's history of Marxism contradicts this goal, for Marxism's greatest success has very little to do with the philosophy of praxis: i.e., the period of the Second International whose mechanistic philosophy stands furthest away from the philosophy of praxis. This contradiction is symptomatic of a more general one underlying the work: his philosophical criticism does not fit “historical facts.” For what Kolakowski wants to uncover is the philosophical weakness of the philosophy of praxis, and link it to the totalitarian structure of “actually existing socialism.”