Ballot, the Streets-or Both (eBook)

From Marx and Engels to Lenin and the October Revolution

August H. Nimtz (Autor)

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2019
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-64259-091-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Lenin's Electoral Strategy focuses on Lenin's approach to electoral politics and what he and other Marxists terms the institutions of bourgeois democracy, drawing on Bolshevik debates and Marx and Engel's own writings to show this to be a central feature of their revolutionary strategy.

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Nimtz uncovers in one that attempts to chart a course between plain opportunism and anarchist rejections of the electoral arena. Instead, electoral campaigns are seen as crucial for developing political education and organisation, and as a key way to measure your forces and communicate with the wider population. As radical left reformist projects, exemplified by Sanders and Corbyn, once again become a political force and the left has to think about what it means to run for office in a capitalist state, it's a good time to look back at how the left has historically conducted such debates.

Autor

lt;p>August H. Nimtz is professor of political science and African American and African studies and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough (2000), Marx, Tocqueville, and Race in America: The 'Absolute Democracy' or 'Defiled Republic' (2003), and a number of related articles in edited volumes and journals.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.11.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Lenin Duma • Lenin electoral politics • Marx electoral politics • Marxism elections • Marxist history • Russian Revolution • socialists elections state • Soviet history
• ISBN-10: 1-64259-091-6 / 1642590916
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64259-091-3 / 9781642590913