1st Edition
The Actual Lenin Reclaiming the Figure from the South
Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Figure of Lenin in a Time of War and Crisis 3. Lenin’s Method 4. A Text from the Void 5. Revolution and the Question of the State 6. Leninist Geopolitics 7. A Leninist Crisis in the South 8. Lenin’s Legacy 9. Stakes in this Study. Epilogue
Biography
Ranabir Samaddar is Emeritus Professor at the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, India. He belongs to the critical school of thinking and is considered as one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration and forced migration studies. His writings on migration, forms of labour, urbanization, and political struggles have signaled a new turn in post-colonial thinking.
This book does not ask what Lenin means, but where Lenin still happens. Ranabir Samaddar shows that Lenin remains contemporary wherever politics abandons comfort and history demands decision. From the South, Lenin appears not as doctrine but as event.
Julian Reid, Political Theorist and Professor of International Relations, University of Lapland
Reading Lenin from the South, Ranabir Samaddar brilliantly revisits the “Leninist breach” and tests its actuality in today’s fractured world. His book reopens fundamental questions of organization, imperialism, and revolution by working the gap between then and now, while powerfully addressing the imagination of scholars and activists engages in struggles for liberation.
Sandro Mezzadra, Professor of Political theory, University of Bologna
