Factory of strategy : thirty-three lessons on Lenin / Antonio Negri ; translated by Arianna Bove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Negri, Antonio, 1933-2023, author.

Contributor:

Bove, Arianna, translator.

Series:

Insurrections

Insurrections : critical studies in religion, politics, and culture

Standardized Title:

Fabbrica della strategia. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Communism--Soviet Union--History.

Communism.

Soviet Union.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 337 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Contents:

Part 1 Lenin and Our Generation 1

1 Toward a Marxist Reading of Lenin's Marxism 3

2 From the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization (1) Economic Struggle and Political Struggle: Class Struggle 15

3 From the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization (2) the Working-Class Character of Organization: the Party as Factory 29

4 In Lenin's Footsteps From the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization Annotations 40

5 From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (1) Proletarian Independence 50

6 From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (2) The Factory of Strategy 58

7 From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (3) Organization Toward Communism 70

8 In Lenin's Footsteps From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution Annotations 78

9 Insurrection as Art and Practice of the Masses 88

Part 2 Lenin and the Soviets in the Russian Revolution and Some Remarks on Sovietism 99

10 The Soviets Between Spontaneity and Theory 101

11 Lenin and the Soviets Between 1905 and 1917 113

12 The Soviets and the Leninist Inversion of Praxis 123

13 The Reformist Change of Praxis Soviets Today? 137

14 Verifying the Question of Whether the Soviet Is An Organ of Power 144

15 The Soviet form of Masses and the Urgency of Workers' Struggle 151

Part 3 Interregnum on the Dialectic: the Notebooks of 1914-1916 157

16 Dialectics as the Recovered form of Lenin's Thought 159

17 Lenin Reads Hegel 169

18 Between Philosophy and Politics the Weapons of Dialectics 179

Part 4 The Economic Foundations of the Withering-Away of the State: Introduction to the Reading of the State and Revolution 189

19 "Where to Begin?" 191

20 The Concept of the State In General Can and Must Be Destroyed 203

21 Opportunist and Revolutionary Conceptions of the Withering-Away of the State 216

22 The Problem of the "Withering-Away" of the State Against Equality 224

23 First Approach to a Definition of the Material Bases of the "Withering-Away" Against Work, Against Socialism 234

24 Marx's Anticipation of the Problem of "Withering-Away" Against the Law of Value 246

25 Toward a Problematic View of Transition Impossible Socialism and the Coming Communism 255

26 On the Problem of Transition Again the Word to the Masses 265

27 Transition and Proletarian Dictatorship the Particular Interests of the Working Class 274

28 Transition, Material Basis, and Expansiveness of the Working-Class Government 285

29 A Provisional Conclusion Lenin and Us 294

Part 5 Appendix on "Left-Wing" Communism: a Conclusion and a Beginning 301

30 A Difficult Balance 303

31 A Definition of "Left-Wing" Communism, and Some (Adequate?) Examples 312

32 Toward a New Cycle of Struggles 324

33 From "Left-Wing" Communism to What Is to Be Done? 332.

Notes:

Translation of the author's Fabbrica della strategia.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780231146821

0231146825

OCLC:

842879058