Octavo, 337 pages, very light brown wrappers, inked glossing for the first tenth of the text. "This book on Lenin turns into a revolutionary text, into a true manual of resistance." = Slavoj Zizek.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

FACTORY OF STRATEGY Thirty-Three Lessons On Lenin

Publisher

Columbia University Press ( 2004 ), New York

Publication Date

2004

Language

English

ISBN 10

0231146833

ISBN 13

9780231146838

Binding

Paperback

Edition

First American Edition.

Condition

Good

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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 proletariat'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 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.

About the Author

Antonio Negri (1933–2023) was an Italian philosopher and political activist. He was a prominent figure in the left-wing operaismo movement in the 1960s and ’70s. He is best known for his writings on globalization―particularly the highly influential volume Empire (co-authored with Michael Hardt)―but he also wrote on subjects as various as Vladimir Lenin, Baruch Spinoza, and the Book of Job.

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