
Revolution at the Gates
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Lenin, however, deserves wider consideration than this, and his writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure. They reveal 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 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 redemptive violence, the falsity of liberal tolerance-Lenin's time has come again.
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- Intro
- About the Author
- Also By This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- A Note on Bibliographical Sources
- Introduction: Between the Two Revolutions: Slavoj Zizek
- Revolution at the Gates
- 1 Letters from Afar
- 2 The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution ("April Theses")
- 3 On Slogans
- 4 The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It
- 5 One of the Fundamental Questions of the Revolution
- 6 The Bolsheviks Must Assume Power
- 7 Marxism and Insurrection
- 8 The Tasks of the Revolution
- 9 The Crisis Has Matured
- 10 Advice of an Onlooker
- 11 Letter to Comrades
- 12 Meeting of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies
- Afterword: Lenin's Choice: Slavoj Zizek
- The Right to Truth
- Materialism Revisited
- The Inner Greatness of Stalinism
- Lenin as a Listener of Schubert
- Did Lenin Love His Neighbour?
- From passage à l'acte to the Act Itself
- Welcome to the Desert of the Real!
- Redemptive Violence
- Against Pure Politics
- For They Know Not What They Believe
- "Cultural Capitalism"
- A Cyberspace Lenin?
- Against Post-politics
- Return versus Repetition
- Index
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