Alan Shandro
Biographic Data
| ID | 4374554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Shandro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Shandro |
| SIGNATURE | SHANDRO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lenin and the Contradictions of Hegemony
Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony
In Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony Alan Shandro traces the emergence of the concept of hegemony in Lenin's engagement with the concrete characteristics of the class struggle in Russia and thereby clarifies how the concept works
Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony
In Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony, by means of a careful textual and contextual analysis of the writings of Lenin and his Marxist contemporaries, Alan Shandro traces the contours of the '(anti-) metaphysical event' identified by Gramsci in Lenin's political practice and theory, the emergence of the 'philosophical fact' of hegemony. In so doing, he effectively disputes conventional caricatures of Lenin's role as a political actor and thinker and …
Revolutionary Theory and Political Agency
Text and Context in the Argument of Lenin’s What Is to Be Done
Lars Lih’s Lenin Rediscovered aims to overthrow what he labels the textbook-myth of Leninism through a comprehensive reconstruction of Lenin’s relationship, both to the Kautskyite orthodoxy that dominated the international socialist movement, and more local polemics. While the resulting rereading of Lenin’s early Marxism is a powerful counter to the ‘textbook-interpretation’ of Leninism, Lih has perhaps ‘bent the stick’ too far in an attempt to p…
Dialogue of Negation
Dialogue of Negation: Debates on Hegemony in Russia and the West J EREMY L ESTER London: Pluto Press, 2000 Reviewed by A LAN S HANDRO Hegemony: Archaeology of an Unarticulated Dialogue Jeremy Lester ’s extended re ection on the concept of hegemony and the debates surrounding its evolution is organised around three major concerns. Picking up the thread of the Gramscian distinction between East, where ‘the state was everything [and] civil society w…
Communications
Karl Marx as a Conservative Thinker
According to a long-standing conservative critique, the proponents of fundamental or revolutionary social change necessarily fail by sacrificing the organic complexity of society and the individual upon a procrustean bed of dogmatic and rigid universal principles. I will argue that Marx's concept of proletarian self-emancipation is not only compatible with this conservative critique but is appropriately understood as a variant of it. The self-ema…
Political Action, Context and Conjuncture
Concerned to remedy the ‘state of severe disarray’ that immobilises the left in advanced capitalist countries, Howard Chodos and Colin Hay set out to inquire into ‘the organisational conditions that are necessary to the radical transformation of capitalism'. This disarray is expressed in the drift of social-democratic parties in the wake of the neoliberal mainstream, the inability of a fragmented and disappearing radical Left to orient either its…
Karl Kautsky
It has become customary to trace the deficiencies of Kautsky's “orthodox Marxism” to a reified social ontology that leaves no room for political will and secretes a separation of theory from practice. But this sort of interpretation does not stand up to careful examination of Kautskyan texts and their insertion in the political context of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD); it obscures, and hence risks reproducing, the real theoretical and …
Consciousness from Without
A close textual and contextual analysis of Lenin's claim, in What Is to Be Done?, that socialist consciousness must be imported into the spontaneous working-class movement from without shows that it does not, contrary to the conventional wisdom of non-Marxist and most Marxist scholarship on this question, contradict the basic Marxist thesis of proletarian self-emancipation. Sense can be made of Lenin's claim only in light of the distinctive logic…
Hegel penseur politiqueHenri Denis Lausanne
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A Marxist Theory of Justice
Some recent Marxologists (notably Allen Buchanan, Richard Miller and Allen Wood) have denied that the idea of justice can play any significant role within Marxist thought. This article maintains, on the contrary, that the very logic of historical materialism, notably the concept of the historical development of human needs, necessitates a concept of justice even in the higher phase of communism. Furthermore, the “anti-juridical” interpretation of…
Consciousness from Without
A close textual and contextual analysis of Lenin's claim, in What Is to Be Done?, that socialist consciousness must be imported into the spontaneous working-class movement from without shows that it does not, contrary to the conventional wisdom of non-Marxist and most Marxist scholarship on this question, contradict the basic Marxist thesis of proletarian self-emancipation. Sense can be made of Lenin's claim only in light of the distinctive logic…
Revolutionary Theory and Political Agency
Communications
A Marxist Theory of Justice
Some recent Marxologists (notably Allen Buchanan, Richard Miller and Allen Wood) have denied that the idea of justice can play any significant role within Marxist thought. This article maintains, on the contrary, that the very logic of historical materialism, notably the concept of the historical development of human needs, necessitates a concept of justice even in the higher phase of communism. Furthermore, the “anti-juridical” interpretation of…
Hegel penseur politiqueHenri Denis Lausanne
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Consciousness from Without
A close textual and contextual analysis of Lenin's claim, in What Is to Be Done?, that socialist consciousness must be imported into the spontaneous working-class movement from without shows that it does not, contrary to the conventional wisdom of non-Marxist and most Marxist scholarship on this question, contradict the basic Marxist thesis of proletarian self-emancipation. Sense can be made of Lenin's claim only in light of the distinctive logic…
Karl Kautsky
It has become customary to trace the deficiencies of Kautsky's “orthodox Marxism” to a reified social ontology that leaves no room for political will and secretes a separation of theory from practice. But this sort of interpretation does not stand up to careful examination of Kautskyan texts and their insertion in the political context of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD); it obscures, and hence risks reproducing, the real theoretical and …
Political Action, Context and Conjuncture
Concerned to remedy the ‘state of severe disarray’ that immobilises the left in advanced capitalist countries, Howard Chodos and Colin Hay set out to inquire into ‘the organisational conditions that are necessary to the radical transformation of capitalism'. This disarray is expressed in the drift of social-democratic parties in the wake of the neoliberal mainstream, the inability of a fragmented and disappearing radical Left to orient either its…
Karl Marx as a Conservative Thinker
According to a long-standing conservative critique, the proponents of fundamental or revolutionary social change necessarily fail by sacrificing the organic complexity of society and the individual upon a procrustean bed of dogmatic and rigid universal principles. I will argue that Marx's concept of proletarian self-emancipation is not only compatible with this conservative critique but is appropriately understood as a variant of it. The self-ema…
Communications
Dialogue of Negation
Dialogue of Negation: Debates on Hegemony in Russia and the West J EREMY L ESTER London: Pluto Press, 2000 Reviewed by A LAN S HANDRO Hegemony: Archaeology of an Unarticulated Dialogue Jeremy Lester ’s extended re ection on the concept of hegemony and the debates surrounding its evolution is organised around three major concerns. Picking up the thread of the Gramscian distinction between East, where ‘the state was everything [and] civil society w…
Text and Context in the Argument of Lenin’s What Is to Be Done
Lars Lih’s Lenin Rediscovered aims to overthrow what he labels the textbook-myth of Leninism through a comprehensive reconstruction of Lenin’s relationship, both to the Kautskyite orthodoxy that dominated the international socialist movement, and more local polemics. While the resulting rereading of Lenin’s early Marxism is a powerful counter to the ‘textbook-interpretation’ of Leninism, Lih has perhaps ‘bent the stick’ too far in an attempt to p…
Revolutionary Theory and Political Agency
Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony
In Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony, by means of a careful textual and contextual analysis of the writings of Lenin and his Marxist contemporaries, Alan Shandro traces the contours of the '(anti-) metaphysical event' identified by Gramsci in Lenin's political practice and theory, the emergence of the 'philosophical fact' of hegemony. In so doing, he effectively disputes conventional caricatures of Lenin's role as a political actor and thinker and …
Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony
In Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony Alan Shandro traces the emergence of the concept of hegemony in Lenin's engagement with the concrete characteristics of the class struggle in Russia and thereby clarifies how the concept works
Lenin and the Contradictions of Hegemony
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