Lenin Reloaded
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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.These essays, some of which are appearing in English for the first time, bring Lenin face-to-face with the problems of today, including war, imperialism, the imperative to build an intelligentsia of wage earners, the need to embrace the achievements of bourgeois society and modernity, and the widespread failure of social democracy. Lenin Reloaded demonstrates that truth and partisanship are not mutually exclusive as is often suggested. Quite the opposite-in the present, truth can be articulated only from a thoroughly partisan position. Contributors. Kevin B. Anderson, Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Daniel BensaÏd, Sebastian Budgen, Alex Callinicos, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Stathis Kouvelakis, Georges Labica, Sylvain Lazarus, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Lars T. Lih, Domenico Losurdo, Savas Michael-Matsas, Antonio Negri, Alan Shandro, Slavoj Žižek

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Repeating Lenin / Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slavoj Žižek  1 Part 1: Retrieving Lenin 1. One Divides Itself into Two / Alain Badiou  7 2. Leninism in the Twenty-first Century?: Lenin, Weber, and the Politics of Responsibility / Alex Callinicos  18 3. Lenin in the Postmodern Age / Terry Eagleton  42 4. Lenin and Revisionism / Fredric Jameson  59 5. A Leninist Gesture Today: Against the Populist Temptation / Slavoj Žižek  74 Part 2: Lenin in Philosophy 6. Lenin and the Path of Dialectics / Savas Michael-Matsas  101 7. The Rediscovery and Persistence of the Dialectic in Philosophy and in World Politics / Kevin B. Anderson  120 8. “Leaps! Leaps! Leaps!” / Daniel Bensaid  148 9. Lenin as Reader of Hegel: Hypotheses for a Reading of Lenin’s Notebooks on Hegel’s “The Science of Logic” / Stathis Kouvelakis  164 Part 3: War and Imperialism 10. The Philosophical Moment in Politics Determined by War: Lenin 1914-16 / Etienne Balibar  207 11. From Imperialism to Globalization / Georges Labica  222 12. Lenin and Herrenvolk Democracy / Domenico Losurdo  239 Part 4: Politics and its Subject 13. Lenin and the Part, 1902-November 1917 / Sylvian Lazarus  255 14. Lenin the Just, or Marxism Unrecycled / Jean-Jacques Lecercle  269 15. Lenin and the Great Awakening / Lars T. Lih  283 16. What to Do Today with What Is to Be Done?, or Rather: The Body of the General Intellect / Antonio Negri  297 17. Lenin and Hegemony: The Soviets, the Working Class, and the Party in the Revolution of 1905 / Alan Shandro  308 Contributors  333 Index  335

About the Author :
Sebastian Budgen is a member of the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism and a coeditor (with Chiara Bonfiglioli) of La planete altermondialiste. Stathis Kouvelakis teaches political theory at King’s College London. His books include Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx and Dictionnaire Marx Contemporain (coedited with J. Bidet). He is an editor of the French journal Contretemps. Slavoj Žižek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His many books include Theology and the Political: The New Debate (coedited with Creston Davis and John Milbank), Cogito and the Unconscious, and Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology, all also published by Duke University Press.

Review :
“[Lenin Reloaded] will surely be of relevance for those socialists who wish to link our struggles within capitalism to the goals of the broader movement against capitalism. For this reason, the editors of Lenin Reloaded are to be congratulated, and every reader of this journal should consider buying and reading it. . . .” - Paul Blackledge (Capital & Class) “The mixture of voices makes for a stimulating anthology. . . .” - Scott McLemee (Bookforum) “This collection of essays is recommended, not just because of the quality of the various contributions, but above all because Lenin’s philosophical interventions have been largely neglected and ignored since Althusser.” - Liam O'Ruairc (Radical Philosophy)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822339410
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Series Title: [sic] Series
  • Weight: 485 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0822339412
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jun 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Sub Title: Toward a Politics of Truth, Sic Vii
  • Width: 149 mm


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