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Revolution at the Gates - Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917 (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Revolution at the Gates - Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917 (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: The Essential Zizek
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The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of
sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn't he stand for the
big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire
twentieth-century?
Lenin, however, deserves wider consideration than this, and his
writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure.
They reveal his ability to grasp the significance of an
extraordinary moment in history. Everything is here, from
Lenin-the-ingenious-revolutionary-strategist to
Lenin-of-the-enacted-utopia. To use Kierkegaard's phrase, what we
can glimpse in these writings is Lenin-in-becoming: not yet
Lenin-the-Soviet-institution, but Lenin thrown into an open,
contingent situation.
In "Revolution at the Gates," Slavoj Žižek locates the 1917
writings in their historical context, while his afterword tackles
the key question of whether Lenin can be reinvented in our era of
"cultural capitalism." Žižek is convinced that, whatever the
discussion--the forthcoming crisis of capitalism, the possibility
of a redemptive violence, the falsity of liberal tolerance--Lenin's
time has come again.
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