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The Palgrave Handbook of Leninist Political Philosophy
Reading the book sometimes feels a little like eavesdropping on a series of running arguments from which, regrettably, notable and relevant figures have been disinvited
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
The Palgrave Handbook of Leninist Political Philosophy
ed Tom Rockmore and Norman Levine
Palgrave Macmillan, £159.99
Lenin never sat down to write a systematic account of his ideas.
Even when addressing what might seem to be purely philosophical concerns, like our knowledge of the external world, he was invariably fighting hard for one side or another in some current factional debate. Perhaps especially then.
And the Palgrave Handbook of Leninist Political Philosophy does not really try to smooth this lifetime of controversy into a harmonious unity.
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