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Revolution at the Gates

Revolution at the Gates

Zizek on Lenin: The 1917 Writings

by V I Lenin and Slavoj Zizek
Paperback
Publication Date: 17/06/2004

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The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn't Lenin stand for the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire twentieth-century world political scene, for the Real Socialist experiment which culminated in an economically inefficient dictatorship? Lenin, however, deserves wider consideration than this, and his writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure. They reveal his ability to grasp the significance of an extraordinary moment in history - his instinctive understanding of the unique revolutionary chance. Everything is here, from Lenin-the-ingenious-revolutionary-strategist to Lenin-of-the-enacted-utopia. To use Kierkegaard's phrase, what we can glimpse in these writings is Lenin-in-becoming: not yet Lenin-the-Soviet-institution, but Lenin thrown into an open, contingent situation. Slavoj Zizek's major introduction situates the 1917 writings in their historical context, and tackles the key question of whether Lenin can be reinvented in our era of 'cultural capitalism'. Zizek is convinced: whatever the discussion - the forthcoming crisis of capitalism, the possibility of a redeeming vio
ISBN:
9781859845462
9781859845462
Category:
Marxism & Communism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
17-06-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Verso Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
354
Dimensions (mm):
206x152x20mm
Weight:
0.44kg

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