- Title Pages
- Preface to the English Translation
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Translator’s Note
-
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 the Revolution (1) -
6 From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of the Revolution (2) -
7 From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of the 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 -
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 the Masses and the Urgency of Workers’ Struggle -
16 Dialectics as a Recovered Form of Lenin’s Thought -
17 Lenin Reads Hegel -
18 Between Philosophy and Politics -
19 “Where to Begin?” -
20 The Concept of 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 -
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?
Lenin Reads Hegel
Lenin Reads Hegel
- Chapter:
- (p.169) 17 Lenin Reads Hegel
- Source:
- Factory of Strategy
- Author(s):
Antonio Negri
, Arianna Bove- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
This chapter examines Vladimir Lenin’s commentary on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s The Science of Logic, which is the nucleus of his Notebooks on Philosophy, or, more properly, his notebooks on dialectics. In the context of the development of Hegel’s thought, this chapter elucidates the concepts in which he grounds the science of logic and which Lenin clearly highlights in his commentary. In particular, it clarifies the innovative motif of Lenin’s reading of Hegel with respect to Karl Marx and the relevance of the reading to the concrete development of his revolutionary thought. It also considers Marx’s critique of Hegel’s logic and his attempt to overturn the terms of the science of logic and of Hegelianism in general. Finally, it analyzes Lenin’s claim that in the process of consciousness the form cannot be distinguished from the content of knowledge.
Keywords: dialectics, Vladimir Lenin, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Science of Logic, logic, Karl Marx, science of logic, Hegelianism, consciousness, knowledge
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- Title Pages
- Preface to the English Translation
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Translator’s Note
-
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 the Revolution (1) -
6 From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of the Revolution (2) -
7 From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of the 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 -
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 the Masses and the Urgency of Workers’ Struggle -
16 Dialectics as a Recovered Form of Lenin’s Thought -
17 Lenin Reads Hegel -
18 Between Philosophy and Politics -
19 “Where to Begin?” -
20 The Concept of 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 -
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?
