INTRODUCTION: POLISH PHILOSOPHICAL REVISIONISTS IN MARXISM
INTRODUCTION: POLISH PHILOSOPHICAL REVISIONISTS IN MARXISM

Summary/Abstract: The term ’philosophical revisionism in Marxism’ has several meanings and applications. In our opinion there are good reasons to restrict it to certain philosophical conceptions in the countries in which Marxism or Marxism-Leninism was/is the official ideology and the “state philosophy.”1 In the case of the Soviet Bloc countries the broader term ’revisionism’ is applied to complex political, ideological, and intellectual phenomena that came into being after the death of Stalin in 19532. His death marked the beginning of a new era in these countries, although it became evident only in 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev started the process of de-Stalinization with his Secret Speech delivered at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in which he denounced Stalin’s repressive politics. In three Communist countries, in Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Poland, philosophical movements revising Marxism happened as a part of this process of de-Stalinization.

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