The Future of Lenin

Power, Politics, and Revolution in the Twenty-First Century

Alla Ivanchikova, Robert R. Maclean (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

375 Seiten

2023
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-8806-6 (ISBN)

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Essays that argue in favor of Lenin's continuing relevance for twenty-first century politics and thought.

Situated in a particular historical moment marked by the violent crises of capitalism—the rise of the alt-right, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Black Lives Matter movement—The Future of Lenin collects essays by an international cohort of scholars to assert Lenin's relevance for twenty-first-century politics and thought. Taking different and sometimes opposing vantage points on Lenin's value for the future, the contributions to this volume reveal an unexpected Lenin, one who escapes the stale Cold War-era discourse of demonization and hagiography. Instead, the future-oriented Lenin in these pages comes to life as our contemporary: an interlocutor who is surprisingly relevant for Black and anticolonial struggles in the US and beyond; for building the new Left; and for assessing Bernie Sanders' movement as well as alt-right anti-statism. In short, Lenin's concrete development of Marxism for his historical conditions may yet offer lessons for revolutionaries to come.

Alla Ivanchikova is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Robert R. Maclean is an independent scholar.

Illustrations

Introduction: Does Lenin Have a Future?
Alla Ivanchikova

Part I: Lenin, Our Contemporary?

1. Rejecting Lenin for the Left
David J. Ost

2. What Is Leninist Thinking?
Jodi Dean

3. We're All (Romantic) Socialists: Lenin and the Struggle with Economic Romanticists Then and Now
Christian Sorace and Kai Heron

4. Whither the State? Steve Bannon, the Alt‑Right, and Lenin's State and Revolution
Alexandar Mihailovic

5. Saving the Vanguard: Lenin's Military Metaphors Today
Daniel Egan

Part II: Centering the Black Leninist Tradition

6. Elaborations of Leninism: Self-Determination and the Tradition of Radical Blackness
Charisse Burden‑Stelly

7. Black Leninist Internationalism: The Anticolonial Center
Robert R. Maclean

8. Lenin and East African Marxism: Abdul Rahman Mohamed Babu and Dani Wadada Nabudere
Zeyad el Nabolsy

Part III: The Actuality of Lenin's Theory

9. "Withering Away": State, Revolution, and Social Objectivity
Giovanni Zanotti

10. Lenin and the Materialist Critique of Law
Camila Vergara

11. Facing the Test: The Leninist Party as Proctor
Derek R. Ford

12. The Production of "Leninism" and Its Political Journeys
Zhivka Valiavicharska

13. Looking for Lenin in Bishkek
Text and Photos: Johann Salazar and Hjal(mar) Jorge Joffre‑Eichhorn

About the Editors
Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 23
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-4384-8806-8 / 1438488068
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-8806-6 / 9781438488066
Zustand	Neuware