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Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin

Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin

Bove, Arianna
Negri, Antonio

Hardcover

Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and C

PhilosophyReligion General Social Movements

ISBN10: 0231146825
ISBN13: 9780231146821
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Feb 4 2014
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.36
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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