Kevin Anderson. Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism.

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Lenin on Hegel and Dialectics

1. The Crisis of World Marxism in 1914 and Lenin’s Plunge into Hegel

2. Lenin on Hegel’s Concepts of Being and Essence

3. The Subjective Logic: The Core of Lenin’s 1914 Hegel Studies

4. Lenin’s Discussions of the Dialectic, 1915-23: An Ambivalent, Secretive Hegelianism

Part 2: Lenin on the Dialectics of Revolution, 1914-23

5. Imperialism and New Forms of Subjectivity: National Liberation Movements

6. State and Revolution: Subjectivity, Grassroots Democracy, and the Critique of Bureaucracy

Part 3: Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism

7. From the 1920s to 1953: Lukács, Lefebvre, and the Johnson-Forest Tendency

8. From 1954 to Today: Lefebvre, Colletti, Althusser, and Dunayevskaya

Conclusion: Lenin’s Paradoxical Legacy

Notes

Selected Bibliography