V I Lenin

DAGENS SKÄRPTA INTERIMPERIALISTISKA KONFLIKTER får sin näring både av de inledande faserna i en världsdepression — som kommer att innebära decennier av ekonomiska, finansiella och sociala konvulsioner och klasstrider — och av den mest omfattande förändringen av Washingtons militärpolitik och militära organisering sedan slutet av 1930-talet när härskarna i USA förberedde sig för att gå med i de allt mer omfattande krigen I Asien och Europa, vilket omvandlade dem till andra världskriget. Innehåll - Kapitalismens långa heta vinter har börjat av Jack Barnes - Deras omvandling och vår: Utkast till resolution av Socialist Workers Party - Kris, uppgång och revolution: Rapporter från 1921 av V. I. Lenin och Leo Trotskij

Under Første Verdenskrig var Lenin isoleret i eksil. Her brugte han alle sine kræfter på at uddanne bolsjevikkerne i marxismens grundlæggende idéer og forberede dem på at tage kampen op imod historiens første imperialistiske storkrig. Hans mesterværk fra perioden, Imperialismen som kapitalismens højeste stadie, har lige siden givet den bedste forklaring af imperialismens væsen — fra monopolernes markedsdominans til finansverdenens rolle i økonomien og kampen om verdensherredømmet mellem de imperialistiske nationer. Alle Lenins forudsigelser om de voksende modsætninger mellem nationalstaterne og de uundgåelige krige, der udspringer af imperialismens indre modsætninger, har vist sig at holde stik gennem de sidste 100 års historie. Ved brug af fakta, statistik og en dialektisk og materialistisk filosofi lagde Lenin grundlaget for en vigtig videreudvikling af marxismen og forståelsen af kapitalismens nyeste stadie. I dag er imperialistiske spændinger, krige og oprustning igen på dagsordenen — derfor er Lenins tekst obligatorisk læsning for alle revolutionære, der vil forandre verden. Den danske oversættelse af Imperialismen er i denne nye udgave blevet bearbejdet for at bringe den gamle oversættelse ind i det 21. århundrede. Uddaterede ord er konsekvent udskiftet med mere tidssvarende, baseret på den engelske oversættelse, og de ofte kluntede gammeldags formuleringer — som desværre præger de fleste danske oversættelser af Lenin — er blevet skærpet, så også en ny generation af klassekæmpere kan lære af Lenins idéer og metode. Som forord til denne udgave har vi valgt at optrykke en længere tekst om imperialismen i dag og om Ruslands og Kinas karakter som moderne imperialistiske nationer.

I denna bok analyserar Lenin övergången från konkurrenskapitalism till monopolkapitalism och imperialism. Han gör en definition av begreppet imperialism som ett särskilt stadium i kapitalismens utveckling och skriver att detta stadium har fem speciella kännetecken, nämligen monopolisering av kapital, uppkomsten av en finansoligarki, kapitalexportens ökande betydelse, monopolens uppdelning av världen och avslutandet av jordens territoriella uppdelning mellan stormakterna. Lenins bok om imperialismen är en vidareutveckling av marxismen och den har haft enorm betydelse för den revolutionära rörelsen i världen. Lenins definition av imperialismen diskuteras än idag.

För precis 100 år sedan, den 21 januari 1924, dog V I Lenin. Oktoberförlaget uppmärksammar detta genom att ge ut denna artikelsamling. Lenin var inte ensam om att kritisera reformismen. Men hans kritik var den grundligaste och mest omfattande. Han tog upp de materiella och samhälleliga orsakerna till reformismens framfart. Lenin menade att reformismen inte kunde förklaras med tillfälligheter eller med enskilda personers misstag. Den hade sina rötter i det ekonomiska systemet och var någonting arbetarrörelsen tvingades leva med och ständigt föra kamp emot. I flera artiklar utvecklade Lenin sin analys av reformismen. Inte minst för oss här i Sverige, som levt med den socialdemokratiska reformismen i över ett sekel, är Lenins artiklar oundgängliga.

'Without a revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.' - Lenin V. I. Lenin (1870-1924) took forward Marxist theory and practice in critical areas. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) opened the strategic path for the revolutions of the twentieth century. The State and Revolution (1917) explained the necessity for the seizure of state power by the proletariat and for the replacement of the old state by a new state apparatus dominated by the proletariat. Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (1905) pioneered the new strategic perspective of dovetailing the bourgeois-democratic revolution with the socialist revolution under the leadership of the working class. An equally important and crucial contribution by Lenin was his theory of organisation. Organisation, for Lenin, was not a technical question or a tactical issue. Organisation was integral to revolutionary theory. What is to be Done? (written in 1901 and published in 1902) elaborates on how an appropriate organisation alone can translate revolutionary theory into a revolutionary movement. Prakash Karat's Introduction explains the main arguments of Lenin's thick pamphlet - his critique of an over-reliance on spontaneity in the working class struggles, which marks out the terrain of Economism; his elaboration of the idea of democratic centralism in party organisation; his idea of the vanguard, a party consisting of an advanced detachment of the working class. What is to be Done? is a core text that every student of Marxism and revolution must study.

Lenin's booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. Written in the months running up to the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin turned the traditional socialist concept of the state on its head, arguing for the need to smash the organs of the bourgeois state to create a 'semi-state' of soviets, or workers' councils, in which ordinary people would take on the functions of the state machine in a new and radically democratic manner. This new edition includes a substantial introduction by renowned theorist Antonio Negri, who argues for the continued relevance of these ideas.

Fired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation of most socialist parties to the demands of national bourgeoisies, Lenin sought to understand the deeper roots of the crisis of the world movement. The result was Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, which went on to become a core text for the international communist movement. But Lenin also sought to break with the Eurocentrism of the socialist movement, which tended to look down with disdain at or simply reject struggles for self-determination, especially among colonized peoples. This volume, with an introduction by the renowned abolitionist and anti-imperialist theorist Ruth Wilson Gilmore, brings together the texts on imperialism and those on the national question to provide a window into Lenin's global vision of revolution.

This vivid selection, compiled and introduced by Tamara Deutscher, written by Lenin and those who knew him, brings us the revolution in his everyday life - the man who lived by politics but not by politics alone. Here, we see the Lenin of leisure as well as work, geared to his life's purpose and yet enjoying to the full all the pleasures of a healthy human existence - neither the humourless, monolithic cult hero of Soviet mythology nor the bogeyman of official anti-communism. What did Lenin read? How did he relax? What did he think and feel? This surprising collection, covering everything from his passionate baritone singing voice to his love of hunting wild game and beyond, reveals the man beyond the myth.

Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. For anyone who seeks to understand capitalism, the Russian Revolution, and the role of communism in the tumultuous political and social movements that have shaped the modern world, the works of Lenin offer unparalleled insight and understanding.

Written in June and July 1905, Lenin here set forth his basic views on the bourgeois revolution in Russia, on which serious differences had developed with the Mensheviks. The revolution was then in progress, and Lenin felt the need for a clear understanding of the character and driving forces of that revolution, the role of the working class in it, the revolutionary prospects, and the tactics arising from this analysis. Here is developed in full the concept of the revolutionary democratic government of the proletariat and the peasantry and the path of transition from the bourgeois democratic to the socialist revolution. The views elucidated in this work were followed by the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution of 1905-1907, which Lenin later called the "dress rehearsal" for the Revolution of 1917. To help the reader understand Lenin's numerous references to the events and personages of the time and his historical comparisons, explanatory notes have been supplied by the editors.