Lenin Reloaded

Sebastian Budgen is a member of the editorial board of the journal "Historical Materialism" and a coeditor (with Chiara Bonfiglioli) of "La planete altermondialiste."Stathis Kouvelakis teaches political theory at King's College London. His books include "Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx" and "Dictionnaire Marx Contemporain" (coedited with J. Bidet). He is an editor of the French journal "Contretemps."Slavoj Zižek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His many books include "Theology and the Political: The New Debate" (coedited with Creston Davis and John Milbank), "Cogito and the Unconscious," and "Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology," all also published by Duke University Press.

At a time when few people seriously consider alternatives to global capitalism, this work argues that Lenin demonstrates the inseparability of truth and partisanship (the taking of sides), an argument liberal leftists must hear now.

Introduction: Repeating Lenin / Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slavoj Zizek 1Part 1: Retrieving Lenin1. One Divides Itself into Two / Alain Badiou 72. Leninism in the Twenty-first Century?: Lenin, Weber, and the Politics of Responsibility / Alex Callinicos 183. Lenin in the Postmodern Age / Terry Eagleton 424. Lenin and Revisionism / Fredric Jameson 595. A Leninist Gesture Today: Against the Populist Temptation / Slavoj Zizek 74Part 2: Lenin in Philosophy6. Lenin and the Path of Dialectics / Savas Michael-Matsas 1017. The Rediscovery and Persistence of the Dialectic in Philosophy and in World Politics / Kevin B. Anderson 1208. “Leaps! Leaps! Leaps!” / Daniel Bensaid 1489. Lenin as Reader of Hegel: Hypotheses for a Reading of Lenin’s Notebooks on Hegel’s “The Science of Logic” / Stathis Kouvelakis 164Part 3: War and Imperialism10. The Philosophical Moment in Politics Determined by War: Lenin 1914-16 / Etienne Balibar 20711. From Imperialism to Globalization / Georges Labica 22212. Lenin and Herrenvolk Democracy / Domenico Losurdo 239Part 4: Politics and its Subject13. Lenin and the Part, 1902-November 1917 / Sylvian Lazarus 25514. Lenin the Just, or Marxism Unrecycled / Jean-Jacques Lecercle 26915. Lenin and the Great Awakening / Lars T. Lih 28316. What to Do Today with What Is to Be Done?, or Rather: The Body of the General Intellect / Antonio Negri 29717. Lenin and Hegemony: The Soviets, the Working Class, and the Party in the Revolution of 1905 / Alan Shandro 308Contributors 333Index 335