Revolution at the Gates by Slavoj Zizek
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.
A return to Marx may be acceptable today.. But a repetition of Lenin? ... Perhaps Zizek's return to Lenin is merely tactical, figurative even. He can't be serious, can he? ... Zizek claims that Lenin's act, 'his choice', continues to speak to those of us on the left today. Faced with our current conceptual deadlock, we must have the courage, the nerve, to risk isolation, self-annihilation even, in order to ofeer a real alternative to the false oppositions recuperated by and churned out for our consumption by the image industry of late capitalism ... The postmodernists and liberal multiculturalists, today's Bernsteins and Kautskys-our contemporary Plekhanovs and Martovs, beware! * Bad Subjects *
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (1870-1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He played a leading role in the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781859845462 |
| ISBN 10 | 1859845460 |
| Title | Revolution at the Gates |
| Author | Slavoj Zizek |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2004-06-17 |
| Number of pages | 354 |
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