At a time when few people seriously consider alternatives to global capitalism, this work argues that Lenin demonstrates the inseparability of truth and partisanship (the taking of sides), an argument liberal leftists must hear now.

Introduction: Repeating Lenin / Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slavoj Zizek 1
Part 1: Retrieving Lenin
1. One Divides Itself into Two / Alain Badiou 7
2. Leninism in the Twenty-first Century?: Lenin, Weber, and the Politics of Responsibility / Alex Callinicos 18
3. Lenin in the Postmodern Age / Terry Eagleton 42
4. Lenin and Revisionism / Fredric Jameson 59
5. A Leninist Gesture Today: Against the Populist Temptation / Slavoj Zizek 74
Part 2: Lenin in Philosophy
6. Lenin and the Path of Dialectics / Savas Michael-Matsas 101
7. The Rediscovery and Persistence of the Dialectic in Philosophy and in World Politics / Kevin B. Anderson 120
8. “Leaps! Leaps! Leaps!” / Daniel Bensaid 148
9. Lenin as Reader of Hegel: Hypotheses for a Reading of Lenin’s Notebooks on Hegel’s “The Science of Logic” / Stathis Kouvelakis 164
Part 3: War and Imperialism
10. The Philosophical Moment in Politics Determined by War: Lenin 1914-16 / Etienne Balibar 207
11. From Imperialism to Globalization / Georges Labica 222
12. Lenin and Herrenvolk Democracy / Domenico Losurdo 239
Part 4: Politics and its Subject
13. Lenin and the Part, 1902-November 1917 / Sylvian Lazarus 255
14. Lenin the Just, or Marxism Unrecycled / Jean-Jacques Lecercle 269
15. Lenin and the Great Awakening / Lars T. Lih 283
16. What to Do Today with What Is to Be Done?, or Rather: The Body of the General Intellect / Antonio Negri 297
17. Lenin and Hegemony: The Soviets, the Working Class, and the Party in the Revolution of 1905 / Alan Shandro 308
Contributors 333
Index 335