Factory of Strategy

Preface to the English TranslationPreface to the Second EditionTranslator's NotePart I. Lenin and Our Generation1. Toward a Marxist Reading of Lenin's Marxism2. From the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization (1): Economic Struggle and Political Struggle: Class Struggle3. From the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization (2): The Working-Class Character of Organization: The Party as Factory4. In Lenin's Footsteps from the Theory of Capital to the Theory of Organization: Annotations5. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (1): Proletarian Independence6. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (2): The Factory of Strategy7. From the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution (3): Organization Toward Communism8. In Lenin's Footsteps from the Theory of Organization to the Strategy of Revolution: Annotations9. Insurrection as Art and Practice of the MassesPart II. Lenin and the Soviets in the Russian Revolution and Some Remarks on Sovietism10. The Soviets Between Spontaneity and Theory11. Lenin and the Soviets Between 1905 and 191712. The Soviets and the Leninist Inversion of Praxis13. The Reformist Change of Praxis: Soviets Today?14. Verifying the Question of Whether the Soviet Is an Organ of Power15. The Soviet Form of Masses and the Urgency of Workers' StrugglePart III. Interregnum on the Dialectic: The Notebooks of 1914-191616. Dialectics as the Recovered Form of Lenin's Thought17. Lenin Reads Hegel18. Between Philosophy and Politics: The Weapon of DialecticsPart IV. The Economic Foundations of the Withering-Away of the State: Introduction to the Reading of The State and Revolution19. "Where to begin?"20. The Concept of the State in General Can and Must Be Destroyed21. Opportunist and Revolutionary Conceptions of the Withering-Away of the State22. The Question of the "Withering-Away" of the State: Against Equality23. First Approach to a Definition of the Material Bases of the "Withering-Away":

Antonio Negri has taught political philosophy at the University of Padua, University of Vincennes, and College Internationale de Philosophie. His books include The Politics of Subversion and Negri on Negri. Arianna Bove has translated many texts from Italian and French into English. Her work can be found at www.generation-online.org.

This book on Lenin turns into a revolutionary text, into a true manual of resistance. -- Slavoj i ek There are many Lenins: in this exciting synthesis, with its empasis on philosophy as well as praxis and on spontaneity versus organization, Antonio Negri discloses the dialectical logic of Lenin's historical situation, at the same time that, by insisting on situational logic as such, he demonstrates its differences from our own today, where keeping faith with Lenin's lessons might lead to different forms. His important text from Negri's activist period is therefore a crucial document for understanding Negri's own work and positions as for those of Lenin. -- Fredric Jameson, Duke University 33 Lessons on Lenin is a bracingly original and systematic inquiry into the development of the Russian revolutionary's political thought, bearing comparison with Lukacs's earlier Lenin. It doubles as a unique record of a crucial moment in Negri's trajectory as a political philosopher and activist, when questions of strategy and insurrection were foremost in his mind. Among the most accessible, accomplished and vibrant pieces of Negri's writing, it stands out for its effort to combine political pedagogy and ideological intervention. -- Alberto Toscano, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea