Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Sources and Abbreviations

Introduction to the New English Edition
 1 Lenin in the Present Moment

 2 Lenin and Hegel Today

 3 Lenin and Hegel 1914-22, Some Key Examples

 4 Lenin and the Hegelian Marxist Tradition
 5 Was Lenin Really a Hegelian Marxist after 1914?
 6 Dialectics and Lenin's Theoretical Works after 1914: Did He Really Reorganise His Thinking?

 7 The Antinomies of State and Revolution

 8 Which, If Any, Lenin for Today?
 9 References

Introduction to the First Edition

Part 1 Lenin on Hegel and Dialectics

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

 1 The Significance of the Turn to Hegel

 2 Marxism and Hegel before 1914
 3 Lenin and Hegel before 1914

 4 The 1914 Encyclopedia Article 'Karl Marx'

2 Lenin on Hegel's Concepts of Being and Essence

 1 Lenin Begins to Read Hegel

 2 On 'The Doctrine of Being'

 3 On 'The Doctrine of Essence'

3 The Subjective Logic: The Core of Lenin's 1914 Hegel Studies
 1 The Notion in General: The 'Self-Conscious Subject'

 2 The Syllogism and the Relation of Hegel to Marxism

 3 Teleology: Lenin Discovers a Concept of Practice and Labor in Hegel

 4 The Idea in General: 'The Very Best Exposition of Dialectics'

 5 The Idea of Life: A 'Brilliant' Addition to the Logic

 6 The Idea of Cognition: A Turning Point in Lenin's Abstract

 7 The Idea of the True as the Theoretical Idea and Hegel's Critique of Kant's Relativism and Focus on Phenomena
 8 Analytic and Synthetic Cognition

 9 The Idea of the Good and the Practical Idea

 10 The Practical Idea and Lenin's Omission of the Theoretical Idea

 11 The Absolute Idea: The Ambivalent Climax of Lenin's Reading of Hegel

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

 1 Interlude: Writings on the War and Revolutionary Defeatism, 1914-15

 2 Notes on Other Works by Hegel, 1915: Intelligent Idealism versus Vulgar Materialism

 3 'On the Question of Dialectics': Lenin Critiques Engels

 4 Lenin's Public Writings on Dialectics, 1915-23: Hegelian Marxism and Philosophical Ambivalence

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

5 Imperialism and New Forms of Subjectivity: National Liberation Movements

 1 Economics and Dialectics in the Analysis of Imperialism

 2 Notebooks on Imperialism

 3 Marxism and the National Question to 1914

 4 Lenin on the Dialectics of National Liberation, 1916-17

 5 Continuation of the Debates over National Liberation after the Revolution

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

 1 State and Revolution

 2 The New Vision of Revolution: Letters, Speeches, and Pamphlets, 1917-18

 3 An Ambivalent Critique of Bureaucracy, 1919-23

Part 3 Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism

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

 1 Lenin and Hegel in the Soviet Union in the 1920s

 2 Lenin and Hegel in Central Europe: Korsch, Lukacs, and Bloch

 3 France in the 1930s: Lefebvre and Guterman

 4 France, 1944-53

 5 The United States, 1941-53: From Marcuse to the Johnson-Forest Tendency

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

 1 France in the 1950s: Lefebvre and Garaudy

 2 The United States in the 1950s and 1960s: The Impact of Dunayevskaya's Marxism and Freedom

 3 Italy in the 1950s and 1960s: The Critique of Lucio Colletti

 4 Western Marxism in Postwar Germany: Iring Fetscher

 5 France in the 1960s and 1970s: Althusser, Garaudy, and Beyond

 6 The United States in the 1970s and 1980s: Dunayevskaya's Critiques of Lenin

Conclusion: Lenin's Paradoxical Legacy

Bibliography

Index