Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin

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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 poor's reappropriation of wealth, nor does he depict him as a mere military tool of a vanguard opposed to the Ancien R?gime. Negri instead champions Leninism's ability to adapt to different working-class compositions in Russia, China, Latin America, and elsewhere. He argues that Lenin developed a new political figure in and beyond modernity and an effective organization capable of absorbing different historical conditions. Negri ultimately urges readers to recognize the universal application of Leninism today and its potential to institutionally -- not anarchically -- dismantle centralized power.

Language: English

Pages: 368

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Release: February 04, 2014

ISBN: 0231146825

ISBN 13: 9780231146821

Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin

Antonio Negri

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Language: English

Pages: 368

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Release: February 04, 2014

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Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin

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