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Lénine

Vladimir Ilitch Oulianov, dit Lénine · Founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924) · 1870–1924

Appears in 97 videos · 148 passages, 47 of them in depth.

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Dominique Pagani makes Lenin the end point of his course on revolutionary thought, from Rousseau to Lenin by way of Hegel and Marx1. He often returns to the Philosophical Notebooks: in exile in Switzerland, Lenin annotates the Greater Logic, first wary, then admiring. He judges the chapter on the absolute idea to be both the most idealist and the most materialist, and concludes that Capital cannot be understood without the Logic2. Yet Pagani faults him for believing that the core of Hegel lay in the logic of essence, and prefers Marx's conception of the State3. From What Is to Be Done? he takes up the formula "without revolutionary theory, no revolutionary practice", which separates the revolutionary from the rebel4, along with its praise of a dream that stays achievable5. He also keeps the critique of leftism6, the use of every form of struggle, the idea that reflection is not mechanical, and Materialism and Empirio-criticism7. Finally, he mentions Putin's reproaches against Lenin and the charge that the gulag was already present in Lenin.

  1. 1#9.14 How can sciences of history be real?5 Feb 2021 · 1:44:10
  2. 2In conversation with Bernard Friot (1 June 2018)12 Jun 2018 · 55:26
  3. 3Tonight, we repoliticise (part 1)12 Mar 2018 · 1:22:23
  4. 4Marx on the Beach 1/21 Feb 2016 · 31:29
  5. 5Panzer-philosophy against the cogito: neo-fascism or the ideology of nature (Heidegger, Descartes)5 Mar 2022 · 36:55
  6. 6War, neo-fascism: libertarian liberalism3 Mar 2023 · 59:16
  7. 7#9.20 From signal to sign: Einstein28 Apr 2021 · 1:09:21

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Portrait: LénineWho is this?

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called Leninism. […]

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Series · 18 Apr 2021#2 Lenin, or the wings of dreams
  1. 0:50What Is to Be Done?He presents the text, the end of chapter 5, where Lenin defends a newspaper for militants across all of Russia.
  2. 11:37What Is to Be Done?Lenin praises dreaming and imagines with irony his comrades disputing his right to it.
  3. 26:41Philosophical NotebooksLenin judges the chapter on the absolute idea "most remarkable," at once the most materialist and the most idealist in Hegel.
  4. 58:19What Is to Be Done?Dreams that take account of reality are too rare in the movement, owing to legal criticism and to conformism.
Cycle 5.1 · 21 Nov 2018#5.2 The philosopher's Odyssey: revolutionary thought
  1. 1:06:52Philosophical NotebooksExiled in Switzerland, reads Hegel's Great Logic, first wary then astonished; notes 'and it's true!' before 'action is a syllogism.'
  2. 1:36:41What Is to Be Done?Defends the right to dream, provided one believes in one's dream and works toward its realization.
  3. 1:43:26Philosophical NotebooksJudges the chapter on the absolute idea the most idealist and the most materialist; one cannot understand Capital without Hegel's Logic.
Talks · 19 Jun 2016At the bistro (part 2)
  1. 16:27His testament asks that Stalin and Trotsky be sidelined; he convinces Trotsky to sign the peace of Brest-Litovsk rather than punish him.
  2. 18:04Philosophical NotebooksReader transformed by Hegel's Logic: it must be read in full to understand the first section of Capital.
Series · 1 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 1/5
  1. 30:49A refugee in Switzerland in 1915, he takes the great theoretical detour through Hegel.
  2. 36:15Philosophical NotebooksDiscovers the relevance of Hegel and notes that Marx has been misread for lack of having read Hegel; "the best way to get a migraine."
Talks · 2 Jul 2018Tribute to Domenico Losurdo
  1. 9:36Philosophical NotebooksReading the Logic in Switzerland, he discovers that the most idealist page is the most materialist: one cannot understand Marx without the whole Logic.
  2. 33:29He had understood that Hegel's logic is not abstract.
Talks · 12 Mar 2018Tonight, we repoliticise (part 1)
  1. 47:24A participant cites his notion of imperialism.
  2. 1:08:20He defends bourgeois culture against Bogdanov and 'proletarian culture.'
  3. 1:22:23His error is to have believed that the most important thing in Hegel was the logic of essence; the Marxian conception of the state is more accurate than his own.
  4. 1:30:17A participant presents him as the thinker of the weakest link, against Kautsky.
Series · 22 Dec 2014H for Hegel
  1. 11:51Philosophical NotebooksIn exile in Switzerland, he annotates the greater Logic; his admiration for Hegel grows and he judges that his readers were ignorant of Hegel.
Series · 7 Jul 2012Radio Galère: Michel Clouscard (2)
  1. 10:02Rereading the Science of Logic, he finds the most idealist to be the most materialist and has dialectic taught after the Revolution.
  2. 11:37Imperialism, the Highest Stage of CapitalismHe describes the French bourgeoisie as one of the most intelligent in the world.
  3. 41:28Like him, Pagani thinks that the Hegel-Marx convergence gives revolutionary power its strength.

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