- 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?
“Where to Begin?”
“Where to Begin?”
- Chapter:
- (p.191) 19 “Where to Begin?”
- Source:
- Factory of Strategy
- Author(s):
Antonio Negri
, Arianna Bove- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
This chapter offers a reading of Vladimir Lenin’s The State and Revolution, which is at the heart of Lenin’s thought and the reason why revolutionary workers will always be Leninist. The reading concentrates on Chapter 5, entitled “Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State.” It also examines the interrelationships between the method of dialectics, the analysis of imperialism, and the specific analysis of the state and the approach of the workers’ revolution to it. Written in August and September 1917, The State and Revolution ends abruptly on Chapter 6 and addresses topics such as social classes and the state in general, Karl Marx’s writings on the revolution of 1848, the experience of the Paris Commune of 1871 and Marx’s analysis of it, Friedrich Engels’s polemical writings on social democracy, and the withering-away of the state and the material bases for its demise.
Keywords: dialectics, Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution, revolution, workers, social classes, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, social democracy
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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?
