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

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• 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...

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?