Lenin Reloaded : Toward a Politics of Truth, sic vii
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
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Introduction: Repeating Lenin; Part I. Retrieving Lenin; One Divides Itself into Two; Leninism in the Twenty-first Century?:Lenin, Weber, and the Politics of Responsibility; Lenin in the Postmodern Age; Lenin and Revisionism; A Leninist Gesture Today: Against the PopulistTemptation; Part II. Lenin in Philosophy; Lenin and the Path of Dialectics; The Rediscovery and Persistence of theDialectic in Philosophy and in World Politics; "Leaps! Leaps! Leaps!"; Lenin as Reader of Hegel: Hypothesesfor a Reading of Lenin's Notebooks on Hegel's The Scienceof Logic. Part III. War and Imperiali smThe Philosophical Moment in Politics Determinedby War: Lenin 1914-16; From Imperialism to Globalization; Lenin and Herrenvolk Democracy; Part IV. Poli tics and Its Subject; Lenin and the Party, 1902-November 1917; Lenin the Just, or MarxismUnrecycled; Lenin and the Great Awakening; What to Do Today with What Is to Be Done?, or Rather: The Body of the General Intellect; Lenin and Hegemony: The Soviets, the WorkingClass, and the Party in the Revolution of 1905; Contributors; Index