'A welcome gift ... Highlighting Lenin’s flexibility and
cultivation of collective leadership, Le Blanc brings out the
practical activism and revolutionary patience crucial to organizing
the oppressed on a rapidly over-heating planet' Jodi Dean, author
of Crowds and Party Vladimir Lenin lies in a tomb in Moscow's Red
Square. History has not been kind to this Russian leader, his
teachings reviled by modern mainstream politics. But in today's
capitalist society, riven by class inequality and imperialist wars,
perhaps it is worth returning to this communist icon's demand for
'Peace, Land and Bread', and his radical understanding of
democracy. Lenin was wrestling with the question of 'what is to be
done?' when facing the catastrophes of his own time. Against the
odds, the Bolshevik party succeeded in rejecting both the corrupt
and decaying Romanov dynasty, as well as the capitalist economic
system which had started to take root in Russia. To understand how
this happened, and what we can learn from him today, Paul Le Blanc
takes us through Lenin's dynamic revolutionary thought, how he
worked as part of a larger collective and how he centred the labor
movement in Russia and beyond, uncovering a powerful form of
democracy that could transform our activism today.
General
| Imprint: |
Pluto Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Paul Le Blanc
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
272 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7453-4834-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-7453-4834-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780745348346 |
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