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- Offers a comprehensive analysis of the works of Lenin from the point of strategic intervention, its intended and unintended consequences
- Analyzes the action of Lenin as an outstanding reflexive process of learning and action
- Highlights the importance of the understanding of socialism and state in classical Marxism for the watershed in the revolutionary crises after WWI and draws lessons for the current situation
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Translated from the original German Lenin Neuentdecken and available in English for the first time, this volume rediscovers Lenin as a strategic socialist thinker through close examination of his collected works and correspondence. Brie opens with an analysis of Lenin's theoretical development between 1914 and 1917, in preparation for his critical decision to dissolve the Constituent Assembly in January 1918 in a struggle for power. This led from the dialectics of revolutionary practice and social analysis to a new understanding of socialism, which is compared and contrasted to the alternative Marxist ideas and conceptions of the state posited by Karl Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg. Rediscovering Lenin then moves to 1921, when Lenin begins a new stage of his theoretical development concerned with resolving the reversal of the revolution’s aims and its results. This process remains unfinished, and the questions raised a hundred years ago remain: How can one intervene successfully and responsibly in social and political crises? What role do social science theories, ideological frameworks, and other practices play in transforming the economic, political and cultural power structures of a society? Brie concludes with a retrospective on the ideas developed by Marx and in the Second International, and their impact on Lenin’s strategic thinking. Placing Lenin's writing itself in the foreground and arguing from inside his own self-learning, Rediscovering Lenin focuses on the reflective relationship between ideology, theory, and practice.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Institute for Critical Social Analysis, Berlin, Germany
Michael Brie
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rediscovering Lenin
Book Subtitle: Dialectics of Revolution and Metaphysics of Domination
Authors: Michael Brie
Translated by: Loren Balhorn, Jan-Peter Herrmann
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23327-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23326-6Published: 20 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23329-7Published: 20 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23327-3Published: 31 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 197
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Sociology, Russian, Soviet, and East European History