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The long shadow of Leninist politics: radical strategy and revolutionary warfare after a century
The underlying equation between revolutionary politics and military strategy in the work of Marx and Engels is well known. For the founders of Marxism, class struggle and revolutionary warfare are simply different intensities, different visibilities, of the same logic—“now hidden, now open”—of hostility (Marx 1986). If the class struggle over the working day represents a “veritable civil war” (Marx 1986: 231), and “every class struggle is a political struggle,” then it is no surprise that class politics, the confrontation of class-on-class, vying for state power, “is the point where [civil] war breaks out into open revolution” (Marx 1986). Revolution is warfare. Politics is coercion. Exploitation is domination. The state is an instrument of repression—the repression of the producing class by the exploiting class. The political struggle involves latent violence. Accordingly, everyday class struggle is simply an asymmetrical civil war.
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100 years of European philosophy since the Great WarVolume
25Series
Philosophical studies in contemporary cultureChapter number
8Pagination
141 - 159Publisher
SpringerPlace of publication
Cham, SwitzerlandPublisher DOI
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978-3-319-50360-8Language
EnglishPublication classification
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2017, Springer International Publishing AGExtent
14Editor/Contributor(s)
M Sharpe, R Jeffs, J ReynoldsUsage metrics
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