VerdanaLenin Reloaded: Toward a
Politics of Truth 0000,0000,0000
0000,0000,0000Edited by
Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slavoj Žižek
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, many of which appear here 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 Bensaďd, 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 1
Part 1: Retrieving Lenin
1. Alain Badiou, One Divides Itself into Two 7
2. Alex Callinicos, Leninism in the Twenty-first Century?: Lenin,
Weber, and the Politics of Responsibility 18
3. Terry Eagleton, Lenin in the Postmodern Age 42
4. Fredric Jameson, Lenin and Revisionism 59
5. Slavoj Zizek, A Leninist Gesture Today: Against the Populist
Temptation 74
Part 2: Lenin in Philosophy
6. Savas Michael-Matsas, Lenin and the Path of Dialectics 101
7. Kevin B. Anderson, The Rediscovery and Persistence of the
Dialectic in Philosophy and in World Politics 120
8. Daniel Bensaid, “Leaps! Leaps! Leaps!” 148
9. Stathis Kouvelakis, Lenin as Reader of Hegel: Hypotheses for a
Reading of Lenin’s Notebooks on Hegel’s “The Science of Logic” 164
Part 3: War and Imperialism
10. Etienne Balibar, The Philosophical Moment in Politics Determined
by War: Lenin 1914-16 207
11. Georges Labica, From Imperialism to Globalization 222
12. Domenico Losurdo, Lenin and Herrenvolk Democracy 239
Part 4: Politics and its Subject
13. Sylvian Lazarus, Lenin and the Part, 1902-November 1917 255
14. Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Lenin the Just, or Marxism Unrecycled 269
15. Lars T. Lih, Lenin and the Great Awakening 283
16. Antonio Negri, What to Do Today with What Is to Be Done?, or
Rather: The Body of the General Intellect 297
17. Alan Shandro, Lenin and Hegemony: The Soviets, the Working Class,
and the Party in the Revolution of 1905 308
Contributors 333
Index 335
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