Learning with Lenin
Selected Works on Education and Revolution
1st Edition
Published on 2. January 2019
669 pages
978-1-64113-517-7 (ISBN)
Description
Learning with Lenin brings together, for the first time, Lenin's classic texts and his speeches and writings on education. To facilitate educators and activists' engagement with these works, a study and discussion guide accompanies each text. Learning with Lenin contributes to the rematerialization of a revolutionary movement in the U.S. by focusing on the pedagogy of Lenin. After a series of setbacks and attacks that seriously degraded its status in both working-class struggles and educational theory, socialism is once again on the rise. Like the generations before them, organizers, activists, and educators are once again turning to classic works of socialism to understand and respond to the systematic depravities of imperialism, white supremacy, and settler-colonialism. Learning with Lenin will assist anyone interested in reading and applying Lenin's theories to our current era, with all of its complexities and contradictions.
Praise for Learning with Lenin
Renowned education psychologist Lev Vygotsky knew quite well that Lenin had much to teach us about the relationship between education and revolution. In Learning with Lenin, Derek Ford and Curry Malott help bring Lenin's valuable insights into today's struggle for a society that meets the needs of humanity and the planet.
Praise for Learning with Lenin
Renowned education psychologist Lev Vygotsky knew quite well that Lenin had much to teach us about the relationship between education and revolution. In Learning with Lenin, Derek Ford and Curry Malott help bring Lenin's valuable insights into today's struggle for a society that meets the needs of humanity and the planet.
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Content
- Cover
- Learning With Lenin
- Learning With Lenin: Selected Works on Education and Revolution
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Leninist Continuity in Educational Theory
- Editors' Note
- References
- I. Educational Texts
- 1. The Question of the Ministry of Education: Study and Discussion Guide
- The Question of Ministry of Education Policy: Supplement to the Discussion on Public Education
- Notes
- 2. Speech at the First All-Russia Congress on Education: Study and Discussion Guide
- Speech at the First All-Russia Congress on Education
- Note
- 3. Speech at the First All-Russia Congress on Adult Education: Study and Discussion Guide
- Part 1: Speech of Greeting
- Part 2: Deception of the People With Slogans of Freedom and Equality
- First All-Russia Congress on Adult Education
- 1 Speech of Greeting
- 2 Deception of the People With Slogans of Freedom and Equality
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- Notes
- 4. Speech at the First All-Russia Congress of Workers in Education and Socialist Culture: Study and Discussion Guide
- Speech at the First All-Russia Congress of Workers in Education and Socialist Culture
- Notes
- 5. Speech Delivered at an All-Russia Conference of Political Education Workers of Gubernia and Uyezd: Study and Discussion Guide
- Speech to Congress on Political Education Workers of Gubernia and Uyezd
- Note
- 6. Instructions of the Central Committee: To Communists Working in the People's Commissariat for Education: Study and Discussion Guide
- Instructions of the Central Committee: To Communists Working in the People's Commissariat for Education
- 7. The Work of the People's Commissariat for Education: Study and Discussion Guide
- The Work of the People's Commissariat for Education
- Notes
- 8. The New Economic Policy and the Tasks of the Political Education Departments: Report to the Second All-Russia Congress of Political Education Departments: Study and Discussion Guide
- The New Economic Policy and the Tasks of the Political Education Departments: Report to the Second All-Russia Congress of Political Education Departments
- Abrupt Change of Policy of the Soviet Government and the R.C.P.
- The 1918 Decision of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee on the Role of the Peasantry
- Our Mistake
- A Strategical Retreat
- Purport of the New Economic Policy
- Who Will Win, the Capitalist or Soviet Power?
- The Fight Will Be Even Fiercer
- Is This the Last Fight?
- We Must Not Count on Going Straight to Communism
- The Principle pf Personal Incentive and Responsibility
- Shall We Be Able to Work for Our Own Benefit?
- Obsolete Methods
- The Greatest Miracle of All
- Tasks of Political Educationalists
- The Three Chief Enemies
- The First Enemy-Communist Conceit
- The Second Enemy-Illiteracy
- The Third Enemy-Bribery
- Difference Between Military and Cultural Problems
- Notes
- 9. Pages From a Diary: Study and Discussion Guide
- Pages From a Diary
- II. Foundational Texts
- 10. What Is to Be Done? Study and Discussion Guide
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement
- Preface
- Notes
- I Dogmatism and "Freedom of Criticism"
- A. What Does "Freedom of Criticism" Mean?
- B. The New Advocates of "Freedom of Criticism"
- C. Criticism in Russia
- D. Engels on the Importance of the Theoretical Struggle
- Notes
- II The Spontaneity of the Masses and the Consciousness of the Social-Democrats
- A. The Beginning of the Spontaneous Upsurge
- B. Bowing to Spontaneity. Rabochaya Mysl
- C. The Self-Emancipation Group34 and Rabocheye Dyelo
- Notes
- III Trade-Unionist Politics And Social-Democratic Politics
- A. Political Agitation and Its Restriction by the Economists
- B. How Martynov Rendered Plekhanov More Profound
- C. Political Exposures and "Training in Revolutionary Activity"
- D. What Is There in Common Between Economism and Terrorism?
- E. The Working Class As Vanguard Fighter for Democracy
- F. Once More "Slanderers," Once More "Mystifiers"
- Notes
- IV The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization of the Revolutionaries
- A. What Is Primitiveness?
- B. Primitiveness and Economism
- C. Organisation of Workers and Organisation of Revolutionaries
- D. The Scope of Organisational Work
- E. "Conspiratorial" Organisation and "Democratism"
- F. Local and All-Russia Work
- Notes
- V The "Plan" for an All-Russia Political Newspaper
- A. Who Was Offended by the Article "Where to Begin"
- B. Can a Newspaper Be a Collective Organiser?
- C. What Type of Organisation Do We Require?
- Notes
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Appendix: The Attempt to Unite Iskra With Rabocheye Dyelo
- Notes
- Correction to What Is to Be Done?
- Note
- 11. The Right of Nations to Self-Determination: Study and Discussion Guide
- What is Meant by the Self-Determination of Nations?
- The Historically Concrete Presentation of the Question
- The Concrete Features of the National Question in Russia, and Russia's Bourgeois-Democratic Reformation
- "Practicality" in the National Question
- The Liberal Bourgeoisie and the Socialist Opportunists in the National Question
- Norway's Secession from Sweden
- The Resolution of the London International Congress, 1896
- The Utopian Karl Marx and the Practical Rosa Luxemburg
- The 1903 Program and Its Liquidators
- Conclusion
- The Right of Nations to Self-Determination
- 1. What Is Meant by the Self-Determination of Nations?
- Notes
- 2. The Historically Concrete Presentation of the Question
- Note
- 3. The Concrete Features of the National Question in Russia, and Russia's Bourgeois-Democratic Reformation
- Note
- 4. "Practicality" in the National Question
- Notes
- 5. The Liberal Bourgeoisie and the Socialist Opportunists in the National Question
- Notes
- 6. Norway's Secession From Sweden
- Notes
- 7. The Resolution of the London International Congress, 1896
- Notes
- 8. The Utopian Karl Marx and the Practical Rosa Luxemburg
- Notes
- 9. The 1903 Programme and its Liquidators
- Notes
- 10. Conclusion
- Notes
- 12. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism: Study and Discussion Guide
- Preface
- Preface to French and German Editions
- Concentration of Production and Monopolies
- Banks and Their New Role
- Finance Capital and the Financial Oligarchy
- Export of Capital
- Division of the World Among Capitalist Associations
- Division of the World Among the Great Powers
- Imperialism as a Special Stage of Capitalism
- Parasitism and Decay of Capitalism
- Critique of Imperialism
- The place of Imperialism in History
- Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
- Preface
- Preface to the French and German Editions
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- I. Concentration of Production and Monopolies
- Notes
- II. Banks and Their New Role
- Notes
- III. Finance Capital and the Financial Oligarchy
- Notes
- IV. Export of Capital
- Notes
- V. Division of the World Among Capitalist Associations
- Notes
- VI. Division of the World Among the Great Powers
- Notes
- VII. Imperialism As a Special Stage of Capitalism
- Notes
- VIII. Parasitism and Decay of Capitalism
- Notes
- IX. Critique of Imperialism
- Notes
- X. The Place of Imperialism in History
- Notes
- 13. The State and Revolution: Study and Discussion Guide
- Preface to the First and Second Editions
- Chapter 1: Class Society and the State
- Chapter 2: The Experience of 1848-51
- Chapter 3: Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871:"
- Chapter 4: Supplementary Explanations by Engels
- Chapter 5: The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State
- Chapter 6: The Vulgarization of Marxism by Opportunists
- The State and Revolution
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Note
- Chapter One: Class Society and the State
- 1. The State: A Product of the Irreconcilability of Class Antagonisms
- 2. Special Bodies of Armed Men, Prisons, etc.
- 3. The State: an Instrument for the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class
- 4. The "Withering Away" of the State, and Violent Revolution
- Notes
- Chapter 2: The Experience of 1848-1851
- 1. The Eve of Revolution
- 2. The Revolution Summed Up
- 3. The Presentation of the Question by Marx in 1852
- Notes
- Chapter 3: Experience of the Paris Communme of 1871. Marx's Analysis
- 1. What Made the Communards' Attempt Heroic?
- 2. What Is to Replace the Smashed State Machine?
- 3. Abolition of Parliamentarism
- 4. Organisation of National Unity
- 5. Abolition of the Parasite State
- Notes
- Chapter 4: Supplementary Explanations by Engels
- 1. The Housing Question
- 2. Controversy with the Anarchists
- 3. Letter to Bebel
- 4. Criticism of the Draft of the Erfurt Programme
- 5. The 1891 Preface to Marx's "The Civil War in France"
- 6. Engels on the Overcoming of Democracy
- Notes
- Chapter 5: The Economic Basis for the Withering Away of the State
- 1. Presentation of the Question by Marx
- 2. The Transition from Capitalism to Communism
- 3. The First Phase of Communist Society
- 4. The Higher Phase of Communist Society
- Notes
- Chapter 6: The Vulgarization of Marxism by the Opportunists
- 1. Plekhanov's Controversy with the Anarchists
- 2. Kautsky's Controversy with the Opportunists
- 3. Kautsky's Controversy with Pannekoek
- Notes
- Chapter VII: The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917
- PostScript to the First Edition
- 14. "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder: Study and Discussion Guide
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder
- In What Sense We Can Speak of the International Significance of the Russian Revolution
- Note
- An Essential Condition of the Bolsheviks' Success
- The Principal Stages in the History of Bolshevism
- The Years of Preparation for Revolution (1903-05)
- Notes
- The Struggle Against Which Enemies Within the Working-Class Movement Helped Bolshevism Develop, Gain Strength, and Become Steeled
- Notes
- "Left-Wing" Communism in Germany. The Leaders, the Party, the Class, the Masses
- Notes
- Should Revolutionaries Work in Reactionary Trade Unions?
- Notes
- Should We Participate in Bourgeois Parliaments?
- Notes
- No Compromises?
- Notes
- "Left-Wing" Communism in Great Britian
- Notes
- Several Conclusions
- Notes
- Appendix
- I. The Split Among the German Communists
- II. The Communists and the Independents in Germany
- III. Turati and Co. in Italy
- IV. False Conclusions from Correct Premises
- V
- Letter From Wijnkoop
- Notes
- Appendix: The Socialist Alteration of Man
- Notes
