Antonio Negri

Factory of Strategy (eBook, ePUB)

Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin
Übersetzer: Bove, Arianna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Factory of Strategy is the last of Antonio Negri's major political works to be translated into English. Rigorous and accessible, it is both a systematic inquiry into the development of Lenin's thought and an encapsulation of a critical shift in Negri's theoretical trajectory.

Lenin is the only prominent politician of the modern era to seriously question the "withering away" and "extinction" of the state, and like Marx, he recognized the link between capitalism and modern sovereignty and the need to destroy capitalism and reconfigure the state. Negri refrains from portraying Lenin as a ferocious dictator enforcing the proletariat's reappropriation of wealth, nor does he depict him as a mere military tool of a vanguard opposed to the Ancien Régime. Negri instead champions Leninism's ability to adapt to different working-class configurations in Russia, China, Latin America, and elsewhere. He argues that Lenin developed a new political figuration in and beyond modernity and an effective organization capable of absorbing different historical conditions. He ultimately urges readers to recognize the universal application of Leninism today and its potential to institutionally-not anarchically-dismantle centralized power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231519427
• Artikelnr.: 40501718

Autorenporträt

Antonio Negri. Translated by Arianna Bove

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the English Translation
Preface to the Second Edition
Translator's Note
Part I. Lenin and Our Generation
1. Toward a Marxist Reading of Lenin's Marxism
2. From the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization (1): Economic
Struggle and Political Struggle: Class Struggle
3. From the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization (2): The
Working-Class Character of Organization: The Party as Factory
4. In Lenin's Footsteps from the Theory of Capital to the Theory of
Organization: Annotations
5. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (1):
Proletarian Independence
6. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (2): The
Factory of Strategy
7. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (3):
Organization Toward Communism
8. In Lenin's Footsteps from the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of
Revolution: Annotations
9. Insurrection as Art and Practice of the Masses
Part II. Lenin and the Soviets in the Russian Revolution and Some Remarks
on Sovietism
10. The Soviets Between Spontaneity and Theory
11. Lenin and the Soviets Between 1905 and 1917
12. The Soviets and the Leninist Inversion of Praxis
13. The Reformist Change of Praxis: Soviets Today?
14. Verifying the Question of Whether the Soviet Is an Organ of Power
15. The Soviet Form of Masses and the Urgency of Workers' Struggle
Part III. Interregnum on the Dialectic: The Notebooks of 1914–1916
16. Dialectics as the Recovered Form of Lenin's Thought
17. Lenin Reads Hegel
18. Between Philosophy and Politics: The Weapon of Dialectics
Part IV. The Economic Foundations of the Withering-Away of the State:
Introduction to the Reading of The State and Revolution
19. "Where to begin?"
20. The Concept of the State in General Can and Must Be Destroyed
21. Opportunist and Revolutionary Conceptions of the Withering-Away of the
State
22. The Question of the "Withering-Away" of the State: Against Equality
23. First Approach to a Definition of the Material Bases of the
"Withering-Away": Against Work, Against Socialism
24. Marx's Anticipation of the Problem of "Withering-Away": Against the Law
of Value
25. Toward a Problematic View of Transition: Impossible Socialism and the
Coming Communism
26. On the Problem of Transition Again: The Word to the Masses
27. Transition and Proletarian Dictatorship: The Particular Interests of
the Working Class
28. Transition, Material Basis, and Expansiveness of the Working-Class
Government
29. A Provisional Conclusion: Lenin and Us
Part V. Appendix on "Left-Wing" Communism: A Conclusion and a Beginning
30. A Difficult Balance
31. A Definition of "Left-Wing" Communism, and Some (Adequate?) Examples
32. Toward a New Cycle of Struggles
33. From "Left-Wing" Communism to What Is to Be Done?

Rezensionen

"There are many Lenins: in this exciting synthesis, with its emphasis on philosophy as well as praxis and on spontaneity versus organization, Antonio Negri discloses the dialectical logic of Lenin's historical situation. At the same time, by insisting on situational logic as such, he demonstrates its differences from our own today, where keeping faith with Lenin's lessons might lead to different forms. This important text from Negri's activist period is therefore a crucial document for understanding Negri's own work and positions and those of Lenin." Fredric Jameson, Duke University