In this Book
- Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth, sic 7
- 2007
- Book
- Published by: Duke University Press
summary
Lenin Reloaded is a rallying call by some of the world’s leading Marxist intellectuals for renewed attention to the significance of Vladimir Lenin. The volume’s editors explain that it was Lenin who made Karl Marx’s thought explicitly political, who extended it beyond the confines of Europe, who put it into practice. They contend that a focus on Lenin is urgently needed now, when global capitalism appears to be the only game in town, the liberal-democratic system seems to have been settled on as the optimal political organization of society, and it has become easier to imagine the end of the world than a modest change in the mode of production. Lenin retooled Marx’s thought for specific historical conditions in 1914, and Lenin Reloaded urges a reinvention of the revolutionary project for the present. Such a project would be Leninist in its commitment to action based on truth and its acceptance of the consequences that follow from action.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Part I. Retrieving Lenin
- 1 One Divides Itself into Two
- pp. 7-17
- 3 Lenin in the Postmodern Age
- pp. 42-58
- 4 Lenin and Revisionism
- pp. 59-73
- Part II. Lenin in Philosophy
- 6 Lenin and the Path of Dialectics
- pp. 101-119
- 8 “Leaps! Leaps! Leaps!”
- pp. 148-163
- Part III. War and Imperialism
- 11 From Imperialism to Globalization
- pp. 222-238
- 12 Lenin and Herrenvolk Democracy
- pp. 239-252
- Part IV. Politics and Its Subject
- 13 Lenin and the Party, 1902–November 1917
- pp. 255-268
- 14 Lenin the Just, or Marxism Unrecycled
- pp. 269-282
- 15 Lenin and the Great Awakening
- pp. 283-296
- Contributors
- pp. 333-334
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822389552
Related ISBN
9780822339298
MARC Record
OCLC
1139389425
Pages
352
Launched on MUSE
2020-02-19
Language
English
Open Access
Yes