Preface to the Second Edition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface to the English Translation xi
4. Preface to the Second Edition xvii
5. Translator’s Note xxv
6. Part One. Lenin and Our Generation
7. 1. Toward a Marxist Reading of Lenin’s Marxism 3
8. 2. From the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization (1) 15
9. 3. From the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization (2) 29
10. 4. In Lenin’s Footsteps from the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization 40
11. 5. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (1) 50
12. 6. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (2) 58
13. 7. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (3) 70
14. 8. In Lenin’s Footsteps from the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution 78
15. 9. Insurrection as Art and Practice of the Masses 88
16. Part Two. Lenin and the Soviets in the Russian Revolution and some Remarks on Sovietism
17. 10. The Soviets between Spontaneity and Theory 101
18. 11. Lenin and the Soviets between 1905 and 1917 113
19. 12. The Soviets and the Leninist Inversion of Praxis 123
20. 13. The Reformist Change of Praxis 137
21. 14. Verifying the Question of Whether the Soviet is an Organ of Power 144
22. 15. The Soviet Form of Masses and the Urgency of Workers’ Struggle 151
23. Part Three. Interregnum on the Dialectic
24. 16. Dialectics as the Recovered Form of Lenin’s Thought 159
25. 17. Lenin Reads Hegel 169
26. 18. Between Philosophy and Politics 179
27. Part Four. The Economic Foundations of the Withering-Away of the State
28. 19. “Where to Begin?” 191
29. 20. The Concept of the State in General Can and Must be Destroyed 203
30. 21. Opportunist and Revolutionary Conceptions of the Withering-Away of the State 216
31. 22. The Problem of the “Withering-Away” of the State 224
32. 23. First Approach to a Definition of the Material Bases of the “Withering-Away” 234
33. 24. Marx’s Anticipation of the Problem of “Withering-Away” 246
34. 25. Toward a Problematic View of Transition 255
35. 26. On the Problem of Transition Again 265
36. 27. Transition and Proletarian Dictatorship 274
37. 28. Transition, Material Basis, and Expansiveness of the Working-Class Government 285
38. 29. A Provisional Conclusion 294
39. Part Five. Appendix on “Left-Wing” Communism
40. 30. A Difficult Balance 303
41. 31. A Definition of “Left-Wing” Communism, and Some (Adequate?) Examples 312
42. 32. Toward a New Cycle of Struggles 324
43. 33. From “Left-Wing” Communism to What is to be Done? 332