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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.
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.
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.
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.
In 1917, the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin revisited Marx
and Engels' views on the state and realised that their ideas had
been distorted by the Socialist movement created in their name.
Written at the outset of WWI, this classic text puts to rest the
notion that Lenin favoured dictatorship over the working class.
With great insight and polemical bravado, Lenin elaborates on the
Marxist concept of the state as a structure of domination.
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.
A new beautiful edition of the Communist Manifesto, combined with
Lenin's key revolutionary tract It was the 1917 Russian Revolution
that transformed the scale of The Communist Manifesto, making it
the key text for socialists everywhere. On the centenary of this
upheaval, this volume pairs Marx and Engels's most famous work with
Lenin's own revolutionary manifesto, "The April Theses," which
lifts politics from the level of everyday banalities to become an
art-form. The Communist Manifesto "Oppressor and oppressed, stood
in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted,
now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in
a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the
common ruin of the contending classes." The Communist Manifesto is
the most influential political text ever written-few other calls to
action have stirred and changed the world. Now, in the wake of a
punishing financial crisis, in a world built on regimes of
permanent austerity, each rife with horrific disparities in wealth,
this short book remains a reference point for those trying to
understand the transformations being wrought by capitalism and its
concomitant forms of exploitation. This centenary edition includes
a new introduction by Tariq Ali, contextualizing the period-the eve
of the 1848 revolutions-in which Marx and Engels penned their
masterpiece and argues that it desperately needs a successor. "The
April Theses" "The chain breaks first at its weakest link." In
Lenin's "April Theses," written in 1917, he presented his ten
analytical maxims, outlining a programme to accelerate and complete
the revolution that had begun in February of that year. Now, on the
revolution's centenary, Verso presents them here alongside Lenin's
'Letters from Afar', written in exile that March and addressed to
his comrades in Petrograd. In these missives, he offers advice and
instruction to comrades pushing ahead with their ideals in the
aftermath of the February revolution. The introduction by Tariq Ali
traces The Communist Manifesto's influence on Lenin's "April
Theses," the text that brought the manifesto to life and made it
one of the most widely read books in history. For Lenin, writes
Ali, it was the birth of imperialism, the legitimate offspring of
capitalism, that signalled the end of the latter's "progressive
capacities."
Four most significant works, also including "The Development of Capitalism in Russia"; "Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism"; "The State and Revolution".
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.
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.
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