Leninism

In this volume, Neil Harding presents the first comprehensive reinterpretation of Leninism to be produced in many years Challenging much of the conventional wisdom regarding Leninism s effectiveness as a mobilizing body of ideas, its substance, and its origins and evolution, Harding offers both a controversial exposition of this ideology and a critical engagement with its consequences for the politics of contemporary communism.Rather than tracing the roots of Leninism to the details of Lenin s biography, Harding shows how it emerged as a revolutionary Marxist response to the First World War and to the perceived treachery the support of that war by social democratic leaders The economics, politics, and philosophy of Leninism, he argues, were rapidly theorized between 1914 and 1918 and deeply imprinted with the peculiarities of the wartime experience Its complementary metaphysics of history and science was as intrinsic to its confidence and sureness of purpose as it was to its contempt for democratic practice and tolerance But, as Harding also shows, although Leninism articulated a complex and coherent critique of capitalist civilization and held a powerful appeal to a variety of constituencies, it was itself caught in a timewarp that fatally limited its capacity to adapt This book will engage not only Russian and Soviet specialists, but also readers concerned with the varieties of twentieth century socialism. Free Read Books Leninism Author Neil Harding – kino-fada.fr This was a fitting place to end my tour through Lenin country It s a short summary and extension of Neil Harding s other book Lenin s Political Thought Lenin s Political Thought was overlong and put strange emphasis on a few things like the Worker s and Peasant s Inspectorate This was a check Lenin tried to put in place on the growing bureaucracy at the end of his life Oh no Harding also placed special emphasis on State and Revolution and the soviet form as a wholly original contribution to This was a fitting place to end my tour through Lenin country It s a short summary and extension of Neil Harding s other book Lenin s Political Thought Lenin s Political Thought was overlong and put strange emphasis on a few things like the Worker s and Peasant s Inspectorate This was a check Lenin tried to put in place on the growing bureaucracy at the end of his life Oh no Harding also placed special emphasis on State and Revolution and the soviet form as a...

• English
• 24 July 2018
Neil Harding
• Paperback
• 356 pages
• 0822318679
• Neil Harding
• Leninism