Future of Lenin

Power, Politics, and Revolution in the Twenty-First Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Essays that argue in favor of Lenin's continuing relevance for twenty-first century politics and thought.Situated in a particular historical moment marked by the violent crises of capitalism-the rise of the alt-right, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Black Lives Matter movement-The Future of Lenin collects essays by an international cohort of scholars to assert Lenin's relevance for twenty-first-century politics and thought. Taking different and sometimes opposing vantage points on Lenin's value for the future, the contributions to this volume reveal an unexpected Lenin, one who escapes the stale Cold War-era discourse of demonization and hagiography. Instead, the future-oriented Lenin in these pages comes to life as our contemporary: an interlocutor who is surprisingly relevant for Black and anticolonial struggles in the US and beyond; for building the new Left; and for assessing Bernie Sanders' movement as well as alt-right anti-statism. In short, Lenin's concrete development of Marxism for his historical conditions may yet offer lessons for revolutionaries to come.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-01-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt:508 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:375
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438488066

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Alla Ivanchikova is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Robert R. Maclean is an independent scholar.

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"As an interdisciplinary and globally oriented text, The Future of Lenin provides nuance and complexity to a subject typically met with reductive thinking, ahistorical speculation, and ideological dismissal or praise. The contributions to this edited volume span the fields of political science, literary studies, cultural studies, education, rhetoric, and history, all while reaching beyond the academy to include activists and independent scholars. Unique to the volume, Alla Ivanchikova and Robert Maclean center revolutionary movements beyond the Euro-American spheres of influence by highlighting Black Leninist thinking and action both on the African continent and beyond." — Jasmine Noelle Yarish, University of the District of Columbia

Innehållsförteckning

IllustrationsIntroduction: Does Lenin Have a Future?Alla IvanchikovaPart I: Lenin, Our Contemporary?1. Rejecting Lenin for the LeftDavid J. Ost2. What Is Leninist Thinking?Jodi Dean3. We're All (Romantic) Socialists: Lenin and the Struggle with Economic Romanticists Then and NowChristian Sorace and Kai Heron4. Whither the State? Steve Bannon, the AltRight, and Lenin's State and RevolutionAlexandar Mihailovic5. Saving the Vanguard: Lenin's Military Metaphors TodayDaniel EganPart II: Centering the Black Leninist Tradition6. Elaborations of Leninism: Self-Determination and the Tradition of Radical BlacknessCharisse BurdenStelly7. Black Leninist Internationalism: The Anticolonial CenterRobert R. Maclean8. Lenin and East African Marxism: Abdul Rahman Mohamed Babu and Dani Wadada NabudereZeyad el NabolsyPart III: The Actuality of Lenin's Theory9. "Withering Away": State, Revolution, and Social ObjectivityGiovanni Zanotti10. Lenin and the Materialist Critique of LawCamila Vergara11. Facing the Test: The Leninist Party as ProctorDerek R. Ford12. The Production of "Leninism" and Its Political JourneysZhivka Valiavicharska13. Looking for Lenin in BishkekText and Photos: Johann Salazar and Hjal(mar) Jorge JoffreEichhornAbout the EditorsContributorsIndex