Lenin
The Insurrections series at Columbia University Press is happy to report a forthcoming book by Toni Negri.
Thirty-three Lessons on Lenin
Antonio Negri
Lenin, his inventive politics and his thought, are to be now simply thrown away? Many stereotypes seem to answer in the affirmative. This reading, conducted in the tumultuous years of the 70s, maintains the opposite, detecting in the theoretical and practical method of the bolschevik leader an element of radical rupture which can legitimately be considered a part of the history of European modernity. In these lessions Negri illustrates the most decisive aspects of the work and action of Lenin: the analysis of classes, the theoretical centrality of subversive praxis, the party as a dialectical subject in front of the movement of the masses, permanent revolution, communism as a perceptible and imminent latency. Knowledge of this personage, historically so decisive, who has recently been reproposed also by other authors, remains fundamental for understanding the contradictions and the conflicts of the twentieth century, but also for confronting the difficulties and the unresolved aporiai of any break with the dominant order.
The Workers' Revolution
Lenin and Our Generation
1. For a Marxist reading of the Marxism of Lenin.
2. From the theory of capital to the theory of organisation (1). Economic struggle and political struggle: class struggle.
3. From the theory of capital to the theory of organisation (2). The working-class character of organisation: the party as factory.
4. On the transition of Lenin from the theory of capital to the theory of organisation: annontations.
5. From the theory of organisation to the strategy of revolution (1). Proletarian independence.
6. From the theory of organisation to the strategy of revolution (2). The factory of strategy.
7. From the theory of organisation to the strategy of revolution (3). Organisation for Communism.
8. On the Leninist passage from the theory of organisation to the strategy of the revolution: annotations.
9. Insurrection as art and practice of the masses.
Lenin and the Soviets in the Russian Revolution. And some considerations on Sovietism
10. The Soviets between spontaneity and theory.
11. Lenin and the Soviets between 1905 and 1917.
12. The Soviets and the Leninist inversion of praxis.
13. The reformist modificaiton of praxis: the Soviets, today?
14. Verification of a question: the Soviets as organ of power?
15. Sovietism of the masses and the urgencies of the workers’s struggle.
Interregnum on the dialectic: the Notebooks of 1914-1916
16. The dialectic as the invented form of Lenin’s thought.
17. Lenin reading Hegel.
18. Between philosophy and politics: dialectical weapons .
The economic bases of the extinction of the State. Introduction to the reading of “The State and Revolution”.
19. “Who will begin?”
20. The Concept of the State in general. It can, it must be destroyed.
21. Opportunistic conception and revolutionary conception of the “extinction” of the State: Working-class hatred of social chauvinism.
22. Problematic of the extinction of the “State”: against equality.
23. First attempt at a definition of the material bases of “extinction”: against work; against socialism.
24. An anticipation of Marx on the problem of “extinction”: against the law of value.
25. For a revision of the problematic of transition: socialism impossible, communism near by.
26. Once again on the revision of the problematic of transition: the word to the masses.
27. Transition and proletarian dictatorship: the particular interests of the working class.
28. Transition, material base and expansivity of the government of the working class.
29. A provisional conclusion: Lenin and Us.
Appendix on “extremism”: a conclusion and a beginning
30. A difficult equilibrium
31. A definition of extremism, and some (adequate?) examples.
32. Toward a new cycle of struggles.
33. From “Extremism” to “What is to be done?”
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Negri on Lennin? Interesting to see what he has to say. I wonder how his position differs form that of Zizek and Badiou’s on Lennin