Lea Kuhar | »Celota je neresnično«: uganka revolucije 105 Lea Kuhar »Celota je neresnično«: uganka revolucije Abstract “The Whole is the Untrue”: The Riddle of Revolution The article aims to present different ways of comprehending the two main concepts of revolutionary thought—the concepts of truth and totality. In the frst part, the article focuses on the Leninist reading of Hegel’s dialectics, which understands the moment of truth as the journey of knowledge in its search for an absolute truth that is also refected in the historical movement of the proletariat. The article tries to present the epistemological conditions of the possibility for the emergence of such theory and develop the consequences of its realization for the actually existing socialisms in the frst part of the 20 th century and the critical distancing from its assumptions in the second part. By introducing Adorno’s negative dialectics, the article presents the challenges that revolutionary thought faces today—especially regarding the concepts of truth and totality. Trying to think about the revolution today, as the main thesis of the article wants to argue, means making a theory of revolution capable of establishing the relationship of knowledge to the un-truth of social totality and comprehending the social moment of the non-totality without falling in the postmod- ernist plurality of different theoretical positions. Keywords: Lenin, Adorno, truth, totality, dialectics Lea Kuhar is a PhD student at the Scientifc Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts. (lkuhar@zrc-sazu.si) Povzetek Članek prikazuje razvoj mišljenja dveh glavnih konceptov revolucionarne misli – koncepta resnice in celote. V prvem delu se članek osredini na leninistično branje Heglove dialektike, ki moment resničnega opredeli kot celoto poti, ki jo v iskanju resnice prehodi vednost oz. celote poti, ki jo v njeni materialistični obliki skozi zgodovinsko gibanje prehodi proletariat. Članek poskuša prikazati epistemološke pogoje možnosti za nastanek dane teorije in nakazati posledice, ki jih je imela nje- na realizacija tako pri vzpostavitvi realno obstoječih socializmov v prvi polovici 20. stoletja kot pri nastanku do nje kritičnih drž v drugi polovici. V drugem delu se članek osredinja na Adornovo ne- gativno dialektiko in na posledice, ki jih je ta imela tako za dojemanje koncepta resničnosti in celote kot za revolucionarno misel na splošno. Temeljna teza danega članka je, da za mišljenje revolucije danes potrebujemo teorijo, ki bo znala vzpostaviti razmerje vednosti do neresničnega momenta družbene celote in na podlagi tega razmišljati o družbenem momentu necelosti, ne da bi ob tem zapadla v množico različnih pozicij. Ključne besede: Lenin, Adorno, resnica, celota, dialektika Lea Kuhar je doktorska študentka na Filozofskem inštitutu ZRC SAZU in večletna sodelavka ter članica programskega odbora Inštituta za delavske študije. (lkuhar@zrc-sazu.si)