Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony: Political Practice and Theory in the Class Struggle

Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 A Philosophical Fact: Hegemony in the Class Struggle......Page 11
 Gramscian Hegemony and Lenin......Page 13
 The Post-Marxist Deconstruction of Hegemony......Page 20
 Lenin as Symbol......Page 27
 Hegemony in the Philosophy of Lenin’s Politics......Page 32
 The Thread of the Argument......Page 34
2 On the Relation of Theory and Practice: Karl Kautsky and theFirst Post-Marxist......Page 42
 Orthodoxy and Apostasy......Page 43
 ‘Critical Marxism’ and Orthodoxy......Page 47
 The Agrarian Prelude......Page 54
 The First Post-Marxist......Page 57
 The Rejoinder......Page 63
 Theory and Consciousness......Page 69
 History......Page 72
 Science......Page 74
 Workers and Intellectuals......Page 76
 Politics and Epistemology......Page 79
 Practice and Theory......Page 82
 Political Will and the Party......Page 85
 Theory in a Community of Struggle......Page 87
3 Situating Marxism in Russia: Ambiguous Coordinates......Page 90
 Karl Marx and the Russian Commune......Page 91
 Georgii Plekhanov and the Transformation of Russian Society......Page 97
 Forces of Revolution and the Problem of Hegemony......Page 102
 Intellectuals, Consciousness and Hegemony......Page 105
 Lenin and Marxist Orthodoxy......Page 110
 Class Struggle in the Democratic Revolution......Page 113
 Hegemony as Socialist Consciousness......Page 118
4 Marxism, Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony: Spontaneity and Consciousness in the Class Struggle ......Page 125
 Conventional Wisdom......Page 126
 Historical Questions......Page 134
 Political Questions......Page 138
 An ‘Irreconcilable Antagonism . . . to the Whole’......Page 141
 A Logic of Political Struggle......Page 145
 A Strategic Analysis......Page 148
 Some Implications......Page 154
5 Dogmatism and Criticism: Freedom in theClass Struggle......Page 159
 The Argument About Freedom......Page 160
 The Argument About Theory......Page 166
6 Two Orientations to Hegemony: Mensheviksand Bolsheviks......Page 174
 The Iskra Consensus and Its Limits......Page 177
 The Congress and the Split......Page 183
 Menshevism and Hegemony......Page 190
 Rosa Luxemburg’s Critique......Page 195
 Lenin and the Logic of Factional Struggle......Page 197
 Two Orientations to Hegemony......Page 203
 From Orientation to Revolution......Page 207
7The Mechanics of Proletarian Hegemony: Solidarity in the Class Struggle......Page 211
 An Alliance of Workers and Peasants......Page 217
 Class Alliance in Theory and Practice......Page 223
 Proletarian Hegemony and Historical Materialism......Page 227
 Proletarian Hegemony and Peasant Ideology......Page 230
 ‘Permanent Revolution’......Page 235
 The Advent of the Soviets......Page 243
 Lenin’s Intervention......Page 247
 The Spontaneous Movement and Hegemony......Page 250
 Theory and Practice in the Struggle for Hegemony......Page 256
 The War and the Split in Socialism......Page 260
 A Hegelian Epiphany?......Page 262
 ‘Kautskyism’ and the Highest Stage of Capitalism......Page 267
 Parasitism and Social Decay......Page 273
 ‘Imperialist Economism’......Page 277
 The State and the Logic of Revolution......Page 282
 The Logic of Revolution and Hegemony......Page 289
 A People’s Revolution......Page 295
9 The Arm of Criticism and the Criticism of Arms:Courage in the Class Struggle......Page 299
 Class Struggle and the Rule of Law......Page 301
 Class Power and Political Form......Page 307
 Class Struggle and Political Community......Page 311
 Community and Class Consciousness......Page 317
 Class Consciousness and Courage......Page 321
10 A Modern Prince to Discourses of Resistance . . . and Back?......Page 325
 From Empire to Commonwealth?......Page 327
 The Modern Prince and the ‘Discourses’......Page 332
 Prince and People......Page 336
Appendix 1 Karl Kautsky, ‘The Revision of the Austrian Social Democratic Programme’......Page 340
Appendix 2 Text and Context in the Argument of Lenin’s What Is to Be Done?......Page 356
Appendix 3 Lenin as a Reader of What Is to Be Done?......Page 369
Bibliography......Page 373
Index......Page 391