Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism

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