STATE AND REVOLUTION: HEGEL, MARX, AND LENIN

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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

I.  HEGEL’S THEORY OF THE STATE

    I.          SOME OBSTACLES TO READING HEGEL

    II.         THE CIRCLE OF NECESSITY

    III.       HEGEL’S OBJECTIVES

    IV.       THE NORMATIVE ORDERS

        Abstract Right

        Morality

        Ethical Life

    V.        THE STATE

II. MARX’S RESPONSE TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT

    I.          MARX’S CRITICAL AGENDA

    II.         TRANSFORMATION AND DEMYSTIFICATION

        The Critique of Hegel’s System in General

        An Aside About Feuerbach and the Transformative Critique

        The Failure of Mediation and the Illusion of the State

    III.       TRANSCENDING THE STATE

III.       THE HEGELIAN PARADOX OF LENIN’S STATE AND REVOLUTION

    I.          HEGEL AND MARX ON THE STATE:  A RECAPITULATION

    II.         THE AMBIGUITY OF THE TEXT

        The Standard for Socialist Practice in What Is To Be Done?

        “An Aberrant Intellectual Enterprise”?

        Lenin’s Appropriation of Marxism

    III.       LENIN’S REVOLUTIONARY STATE: AN UNEASY COEXISTENCE

        The State:  “Parasitic Excrescence” or Proletarian Instrument?

        The Problem of the State’s Leading Role

    IV.       “A PIECE OF ‘HEGELIAN WEAKNESS’”?

IV.  CONCLUSIONS

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