A philosophical fact : hegemony in the class struggle -- On the relation of theory and practice : Karl Kautsky and the first post-Marxist -- Situating Marxism in Russia : ambiguous coordinates -- Marxism, Lenin and the logic of hegemony : spontaneity and consciousness in the class struggle -- Dogmatism and criticism : freedom in the class struggle -- Two orientations to hegemony : Mensheviks and Bolsheviks -- The mechanics of proletarian hegemony : solidarity in the class struggle -- Imperialism and the logic of hegemony : the "people" in the class struggle -- The arm of criticism and the criticism of arms : courage in the class struggle -- A modern prince to discourses of resistance ... and back? -- Appendix 1: Karl Kautsky, "The revision of the Austrian social-democratic programme" -- Appendix 2: Text and context in the argument of Lenin's What is to be done? -- Appendix 3: Lenin as a reader of What is to be done?
Summary
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
