Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin

'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism was one of the first attempts to account for the increasing importance of the world market in the twentieth century. Originally published in 1916, Imperialism explains how colonialism and the First World War were inherent features of the global development of the capitalist economy.

A Popular Outline

Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism

Huey P. Newton

Amy Gdala

A timely reminder of a classic dialectic, Newton's brilliant analysis of how global capital is burning up the planet, with a concluding section on contemporary green politics and international identity.

Revolutionary Intercommunalism & the Right of Nations to Self-determination

Lenin's writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure. They reveal his ability to grasp the significance of an extraordinary moment in history. Whatever the discussionthe forthcoming crisis of capitalism, the possibility of redeeming violence, the falsity of liberal toleranceSlavoj Zizek believes that Lenin's time has come again.

A Selection of Writings from February to October 1917

Revolution at the Gates

State and Revolution was written by Lenin during August-September, 1917, while he was living in hiding in Helsingfors. It was not published, however, until 1918. According to the draft of the original plan made by Lenin, the work was to contain not only a theoretical analysis of the theory of the state by Marx and Engels, but also a consideration of the "the experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917" from the point of view of this theory. But the October Revolution and the necessity to devote every effort to the immediate practical work interfered with the conclusion of the work begun.

The State and Revolution

A basic consideration of the conditions and problems in the formation of a vanguard, revolutionary party.

What Is to Be Done?

Features "Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution," written by Russian Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) and published in 1965 by the Foreign Languages Press in Peking, China. The text is provided online by David J. Romagnolo.

Two Tactics of Social-democracy in the Democratic Revolution

The State and Revolution (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. The State and Revolution is considered to be Lenin's most important work on the state and has been considered Lenin's greatest contribution to political theory.

Gosudarstvo I Revolyutsiya

A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism

Karl Marx

The Teachings of Karl Marx

The April Theses

F. I. Lenin

The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn't he stand for the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire twentieth century? Lenin, however, deserves more profound consideration than this, and his writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure, revealing as they do his ability to grasp the significance of an extraordinary moment in history. Everything is here, from Lenin-the-ingenious-revolutionary strategist to Lenin-of-the-enacted-utopia. To use Kierkegaard's phrase, what we can glimpse in these writings is Lenin-in-becoming: not yet Lenin-the-Soviet-institution, but Lenin thrown into an open, contingent situation. In Revolution at the Gates, Slavoj Zizek locates the 1917 writings in their historical context, while his extensive Afterword tackles the key question of whether Lenin can be reinvented in our era of 'cultural capitalism,' Zizek is convinced that, whatever the discussion—the forthcoming crisis of capitalism, the possibility of a redeeming violence, the falsity of liberal tolerance—Lenin's time has come again.

Lessons of the Revolution

A Lecture Delivered at the Sverdlov University July 11, 1919

The State

The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism. Karl Marx. Frederick Engels [By] V. I. Lenin

The revolutionary party and its tactics -- Revolutionary politics in a world at war -- The revolutionary taking of power -- The revolutionary state and its policies -- Revolutionary foreign policy and comintern strategy -- Revolution and culture -- The fate of the revolution.

The Lenin Anthology

On problems of women's equality, including Clara Zetkin's interview with Lenin, and a preface by N.K. Krupskaya.

From the Writings of V. I. Lenin

The Emancipation of Women

The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Imperialism

Selected Works

Lenin - the man, the revolutionary, and the world leader - has remained an enigma, part myth arising from the tumult of the Russian Revolution and part image carefully controlled for nearly seventy years by the leaders of the Soviet Union and their sympathizers abroad. The Unknown Lenin, containing long concealed documents from the Soviet archives, helps correct the myth and revise the image. Lenin emerges here as a ruthless, manipulative leader who used terror, subversion, and persecution to achieve his goals.

Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin

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