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Fired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the
capitulation of most socialist parties in the face of their
respective national bourgeoisies, Lenin sought to understand the
deeper roots of the crisis of the world movement. The result was a
popular outline book, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism,
which went on to become a core text for the international communist
movement. But Lenin also sought to break with the Eurocentrism of
the socialist movement that tended to look down with disdain at or
simply reject struggles for self-determination especially by
colonised peoples. This volume, introduced by the renowned
abolitionist and anti-imperialist theorist Ruth Wilson Gilmore,
brings together both the texts on imperialism and those on the
national question to provide a window into Lenin's global vision of
revolution.
An analytical discussion of the role of the state as the instrument
of the ruling class.
A basic consideration of the conditions and problems in the
formation of a vanguard, revolutionary party.
Lenin's concept of the revolutionary-democratic government of the
working class and the peasantry, and the path of transition to
socialism, written in 1905.
On problems of women's equality, including Clara Zetkin's interview
with Lenin, and a preface by N.K. Krupskaya.
Four most significant works, also including "The Development of Capitalism in Russia"; "Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism"; "The State and Revolution".
Lenin's famous treatise on imperialism as an outgrowth of monopoly
and finance capital.
2013 Reprint of 1929 Edition. Full facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In "What
Is to Be Done?," Lenin argues that the working class will not
spontaneously become political simply by fighting economic battles
with employers over wages, working hours and the like. To convert
the working class to Marxism, Lenin insists that Marxists should
form a political party, or "vanguard," of dedicated revolutionaries
to spread Marxist political ideas among the workers. The pamphlet
partly precipitated the split of the Russian Social Democratic
Labor Party (RSDLP) between Lenin's Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks
and is perhaps the hallmark of Leninism.
A vivid collection of texts, gathered and introduced by Tamara
Deutscher, by Lenin and those who knew him, that shows the Lenin of
everyday reality, the man who lived by politics but not by politics
alone. Here, we see the Lenin of work and leisure, geared to his
life's purpose and yet enjoying to the full all the pleasures of a
healthy human existence; neither the humourless monolithic
cult-hero of Soviet mythology, nor the bogeyman of official
anti-communism. What did Lenin read? How did he relax? What did he
think and feel? This surprising collection, covering everything
from his passionate Baritone singing voice to his love of hunting
wild game and beyond, reveals the man beyond the myth.
Lenin's booklet State and Revolution is widely recognised to be a
lightening bolt in Marxist theory. Written in the months
immediately running up to the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin
turned the traditional socialist concept of the state on its head,
arguing for the need to smash the organs of the bourgeois state and
for them to be replace by a "semi-state" of soviets, or workers'
councils, in which ordinary people would take on the functions of
the state machine themselves in a new and radically democratic
manner. This new edition includes a substantial new introduction by
renowned theorist Antonio Negri, who argues for the continued
relevance of these ideas.
Among the most influential political and social forces of the
twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical,
political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich
Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. For anyone who seeks to understand
capitalism, the Russian Revolution, and the role of communism in
the tumultuous political and social movements that have shaped the
modern world, the works of Lenin offer unparalleled insight and
understanding. This second volume contains Lenin's works from 1895
to 1897. Included are Lenin's early economic and political
writings, as well as his prescriptions for the program and strategy
of Russian Marxism.
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