Factory of Strategy : : Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin / / Antonio Negri.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Negri, Antonio,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bove, Arianna.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

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.Lenin is the only prominent politician of the modern era to seriously question the "withering away" and "extinction" of the state, and like Marx, he recognized the link between capitalism and modern sovereignty and the need to destroy capitalism and reconfigure the state. Negri refrains from portraying Lenin as a ferocious dictator enforcing the proletariat's reappropriation of wealth, nor does he depict him as a mere military tool of a vanguard opposed to the Ancien Régime. Negri instead champions Leninism's ability to adapt to different working-class configurations in Russia, China, Latin America, and elsewhere. He argues that Lenin developed a new political figuration in and beyond modernity and an effective organization capable of absorbing different historical conditions. He ultimately urges readers to recognize the universal application of Leninism today and its potential to institutionally-not anarchically-dismantle centralized power.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Translation -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Translator's Note -- Part One. Lenin and Our Generation -- 1. Toward a Marxist Reading of Lenin's Marxism -- 2. From the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization (1) -- 3. From the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization (2) -- 4. In Lenin's Footsteps from the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization -- 5. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (1) -- 6. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (2) -- 7. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (3) -- 8. In Lenin's Footsteps from the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution -- 9. Insurrection as Art and Practice of the Masses -- Part Two. Lenin and the Soviets in the Russian Revolution and some Remarks on Sovietism -- 10. 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 -- 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 Three. Interregnum on the Dialectic -- 16. Dialectics as the Recovered Form of Lenin's Thought -- 17. Lenin Reads Hegel -- 18. Between Philosophy and Politics -- Part Four. The Economic Foundations of the Withering-Away of the State -- 19. "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 Problem of the "Withering-Away" of the State -- 23. First Approach to a Definition of the Material Bases of the "Withering-Away" -- 24. Marx's Anticipation of the Problem of "Withering-Away" -- 25. Toward a Problematic View of Transition -- 26. On the Problem of Transition Again -- 27. Transition and Proletarian Dictatorship -- 28. Transition, Material Basis, and Expansiveness of the Working-Class Government -- 29. A Provisional Conclusion -- Part Five. Appendix on "Left-Wing" Communism -- 30. 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?