Future of Lenin

Alla Ivanchikova is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Robert R. Maclean is an independent scholar.

• IllustrationsIntroduction: Does Lenin Have a Future?Alla IvanchikovaPart I: Lenin, Our Contemporary?1. Rejecting Lenin for the LeftDavid J. Ost2. What Is Leninist Thinking?Jodi Dean3. We're All (Romantic) Socialists: Lenin and the Struggle with Economic Romanticists Then and NowChristian Sorace and Kai Heron4. Whither the State? Steve Bannon, the AltRight, and Lenin's State and RevolutionAlexandar Mihailovic5. Saving the Vanguard: Lenin's Military Metaphors TodayDaniel EganPart II: Centering the Black Leninist Tradition6. Elaborations of Leninism: Self-Determination and the Tradition of Radical BlacknessCharisse BurdenStelly7. Black Leninist Internationalism: The Anticolonial CenterRobert R. Maclean8. Lenin and East African Marxism: Abdul Rahman Mohamed Babu and Dani Wadada NabudereZeyad el NabolsyPart III: The Actuality of Lenin's Theory9. "Withering Away": State, Revolution, and Social ObjectivityGiovanni Zanotti10. Lenin and the Materialist Critique of LawCamila Vergara11. Facing the Test: The Leninist Party as ProctorDerek R. Ford12. The Production of "Leninism" and Its Political JourneysZhivka Valiavicharska13. Looking for Lenin in BishkekText and Photos: Johann Salazar and Hjal(mar) Jorge JoffreEichhornAbout the EditorsContributorsIndex

"As an interdisciplinary and globally oriented text, The Future of Lenin provides nuance and complexity to a subject typically met with reductive thinking, ahistorical speculation, and ideological dismissal or praise. The contributions to this edited volume span the fields of political science, literary studies, cultural studies, education, rhetoric, and history, all while reaching beyond the academy to include activists and independent scholars. Unique to the volume, Alla Ivanchikova and Robert Maclean center revolutionary movements beyond the Euro-American spheres of influence by highlighting Black Leninist thinking and action both on the African continent and beyond." — Jasmine Noelle Yarish, University of the District of Columbia