Lenin And The Logic Of Hegemony: Political Practice And Theory In The Class Struggle - Historical Materialism, Volume 72

Using Gramsci's concept of ?hegemony' Alan Shandro offers an original interpretation of Lenin's political practice and theory.

List of contents

Contents

Acknowledgements

I. A Philosophical Fact: Hegemony in the Class Struggle

II. On the Relation of Theory and Practice: Karl Kautsky and the First Post-Marxist

III. Situating Marxism in Russia: Ambiguous Coordinates

IV. Marxism, Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony: Spontaneity and Consciousness in the Class Struggle

V. Dogmatism and Criticism: Freedom in the Class Struggle

VI. Two Orientations to Hegemony: Mensheviks and Bolsheviks

VII. The Mechanics of Proletarian Hegemony: Solidarity in the Class Struggle

VIII. Imperialism and the Logic of Hegemony: The ‘People’ in the Class Struggle

IX. The Arm of Criticism and the Criticism of Arms: Courage in the Class Struggle

X. A Modern Prince to Discourses of Resistance … and Back?

Appendix I: Karl Kautsky, ‘The Revision of the Austrian Social-Democratic Programme’
Appendix II: Text and Context in the Argument of Lenin’s What Is to Be Done?
Appendix III: Lenin as a Reader of What Is to Be Done?

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Alan Shandro teaches political theory at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. He is on the editorial board of Science & Society and has published a number of articles in Marxist political philosophy

Summary

Using Gramsci’s concept of hegemony’ Alan Shandro offers an original interpretation of Lenin’s political practice and theory.

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Product details

• Authors: Alan Shandro, Alan Shandro, Shandro Alan
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.12.2015
• EAN: 9781608464838
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-483-8
• Weight: 554 g
• Series: Historical Materialism; Historical Materialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, European History, Political Ideologies, PHILOSOPHY / Social, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Political ideologies and movements, Chechnya, HISTORY / Russia / General