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Factory of Strategy is the last of Antonio Negri's major political works to be translated into English. Rigorous and accessible, it is both a systematic inquiry into the development of Lenin's thought and an encapsulation of a critical shift in Negri's theoretical trajectory
List of contents
Preface to the English Translation
Preface to the Second Edition
Translator's Note
Part I. Lenin and Our Generation1. Toward a Marxist Reading of Lenin's Marxism
2. From the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization (1): Economic Struggle and Political Struggle: Class Struggle
3. From the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization (2): The Working-Class Character of Organization: The Party as Factory
4. In Lenin's Footsteps from the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization: Annotations
5. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (1): Proletarian Independence
6. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (2): The Factory of Strategy
7. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (3): Organization Toward Communism
8. In Lenin's Footsteps from the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution: Annotations
9. Insurrection as Art and Practice of the Masses
Part II. Lenin and the Soviets in the Russian Revolution and Some Remarks on Sovietism10. The Soviets Between Spontaneity and Theory
11. Lenin and the Soviets Between 1905 and 1917
12. The Soviets and the Leninist Inversion of Praxis
13. The Reformist Change of Praxis: Soviets Today?
14. Verifying the Question of Whether the Soviet Is an Organ of Power
15. The Soviet Form of Masses and the Urgency of Workers' Struggle
Part III. Interregnum on the Dialectic: The Notebooks of 1914–191616. Dialectics as the Recovered Form of Lenin's Thought
17. Lenin Reads Hegel
18. Between Philosophy and Politics: The Weapon of Dialectics
Part IV. The Economic Foundations of the Withering-Away of the State: Introduction to the Reading of The State and Revolution19. "Where to begin?"
20. The Concept of the State in General Can and Must Be Destroyed
21. Opportunist and Revolutionary Conceptions of the Withering-Away of the State
22. The Question of the "Withering-Away" of the State: Against Equality
23. First Approach to a Definition of the Material Bases of the "Withering-Away": Against Work, Against Socialism
24. Marx's Anticipation of the Problem of "Withering-Away": Against the Law of Value
25. Toward a Problematic View of Transition: Impossible Socialism and the Coming Communism
26. On the Problem of Transition Again: The Word to the Masses
27. Transition and Proletarian Dictatorship: The Particular Interests of the Working Class
28. Transition, Material Basis, and Expansiveness of the Working-Class Government
29. A Provisional Conclusion: Lenin and Us
Part V. Appendix on "Left-Wing" Communism: A Conclusion and a Beginning30. A Difficult Balance
31. A Definition of "Left-Wing" Communism, and Some (Adequate?) Examples
32. Toward a New Cycle of Struggles
33. From
"Left-Wing" Communism to
What Is to Be Done?
About the author
Antonio Negri war Professor für Philosophie in Padua und Paris und Abgeordneter im italienischen Parlament. Er ist seit den sechziger Jahren einer der führenden Theoretiker der italienischen Linken und lebt heute in Rom.
Summary
A renewed engagement with Lenin's revolutionary politics and a persuasive case for his contemporary relevance.
Report
"There are many Lenins: in this exciting synthesis, with its emphasis on philosophy as well as praxis and on spontaneity versus organization, Antonio Negri discloses the dialectical logic of Lenin's historical situation. At the same time, by insisting on situational logic as such, he demonstrates its differences from our own today, where keeping faith with Lenin's lessons might lead to different forms. This important text from Negri's activist period is therefore a crucial document for understanding Negri's own work and positions and those of Lenin." Fredric Jameson, Duke University
