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Using Gramsci’s concept of hegemony’ Alan Shandro offers an original interpretation of Lenin’s political practice and theory.
Through a careful textual analysis of the writings of Lenin and his contemporaries, Shandro traces the ways in which Lenin’s political practice and theory led him to the philosophical fact’ of hegemony. This original and groundbreaking investigation demolishes many of caricatures of Lenin’s role as political actor and thinker, and illuminates the underlying parameters of hegemony within the class struggle.
Through a careful textual analysis of the writings of Lenin and his contemporaries, Shandro traces the ways in which Lenin’s political practice and theory led him to the philosophical fact’ of hegemony. This original and groundbreaking investigation demolishes many of caricatures of Lenin’s role as political actor and thinker, and illuminates the underlying parameters of hegemony within the class struggle.
Price: $35.00
Pages: 391
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: Historical Materialism
Publication Date:
22 December 2015
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.02 in
ISBN: 9781608464838
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Alan Shandro teaches political theory at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. He is on the editorial board of Science & Society and has published a number of articles in Marxist political philosophy
Contents
Acknowledgements
I. A Philosophical Fact: Hegemony in the Class Struggle
II. On the Relation of Theory and Practice: Karl Kautsky and the First Post-Marxist
III. Situating Marxism in Russia: Ambiguous Coordinates
IV. Marxism, Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony: Spontaneity and Consciousness in the Class Struggle
V. Dogmatism and Criticism: Freedom in the Class Struggle
VI. Two Orientations to Hegemony: Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
VII. The Mechanics of Proletarian Hegemony: Solidarity in the Class Struggle
VIII. Imperialism and the Logic of Hegemony: The ‘People’ in the Class Struggle
IX. The Arm of Criticism and the Criticism of Arms: Courage in the Class Struggle
X. A Modern Prince to Discourses of Resistance … and Back?
Appendix I: Karl Kautsky, ‘The Revision of the Austrian Social-Democratic Programme’
Appendix II: Text and Context in the Argument of Lenin’s What Is to Be Done?
Appendix III: Lenin as a Reader of What Is to Be Done?
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
I. A Philosophical Fact: Hegemony in the Class Struggle
II. On the Relation of Theory and Practice: Karl Kautsky and the First Post-Marxist
III. Situating Marxism in Russia: Ambiguous Coordinates
IV. Marxism, Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony: Spontaneity and Consciousness in the Class Struggle
V. Dogmatism and Criticism: Freedom in the Class Struggle
VI. Two Orientations to Hegemony: Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
VII. The Mechanics of Proletarian Hegemony: Solidarity in the Class Struggle
VIII. Imperialism and the Logic of Hegemony: The ‘People’ in the Class Struggle
IX. The Arm of Criticism and the Criticism of Arms: Courage in the Class Struggle
X. A Modern Prince to Discourses of Resistance … and Back?
Appendix I: Karl Kautsky, ‘The Revision of the Austrian Social-Democratic Programme’
Appendix II: Text and Context in the Argument of Lenin’s What Is to Be Done?
Appendix III: Lenin as a Reader of What Is to Be Done?
Bibliography
Index