Lenin reading Hegel's Logic in Switzerland after political despair

As told 4

“What does he do? Let's go to Switzerland and read Hegel basically. But which Hegel? Not historicist works or even phenomenology. He reads Hegel's Logic.”
31:47 Like a Thief in the Night: The Actuality of Communism2017-10-25 · 1:35:32

“he moved to Switzerland and read Hegel's logic...he saw that the fiasco was so radical that all even the basic coordinates have to be re-thought”
1:09:38 A Philosophical Journey Through A Concept2014-09-23 · 1:11:38

“Lenin did what in the moment of deepest crisis and defeat every great leftist does. He moved to a secluded place, Switzerland, and started begin reading Hegel.”
5:01 Slavoj Zizek: Lenin Was a Radical Opportunistpub. 2021-10-27 · 26:36

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

Leninist ×2 cognitive mapping ×1 radical opportunism ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Werner Hamacher1 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk1 Alexander Bogdanov1 Alexandra Kollontai1 Thomas Piketty2 Ludwig Wittgenstein2 Raymond Kurzweil2 Georg Lukács3

alongside works

Kotlovan (The Foundation Pit)1 Rabble: The Underclass of Modernity (Ruda)1 The Bell / Das Lied von der Glocke (Schiller)1 Class Warfare in France1 Philosophical Notebooks (Lenin)1 The Road to Serfdom (Hayek)1 Animal Farm (preface)1 The Making of the Indebted Man1

Told together with

33% Rotherham Pakistani gang rape cover-up 2 shared talks 25% Lenin's testament: Stalin too rude 2 shared talks 6% Starbucks ethical consumerism 2 shared talks 4% coffee without cream / coffee without milk 2 shared talks

Every retelling 5

31:47 Like a Thief in the Night: The Actuality of Communism2017-10-25 · 1:35:32

After being totally despairing politically, Lenin went to Switzerland and read Hegel's Science of Logic, not historicist Hegel but the purest abstract Logic, which Hegel called 'thoughts of God before God created the world'., illustrating Hegel-dialectics,Lenin's method,dialectical openness vs. teleology

1:09:38 A Philosophical Journey Through A Concept2014-09-23 · 1:11:38

After all European socialist parties voted for war credits in 1914, Lenin withdrew to Switzerland to re-read Hegel's Logic, refusing the pressure to act without first rethinking all coordinates, offered as a model for disengagement., illustrating disengagement and intellectual work,cognitive mapping

~39:12 The Dash: A discussion with Rebecca Comay and Frank Ruda2018-10-23 · 1:26:41

At the outbreak of World War One, with the whole classic Marxist concept of evolution towards revolution collapsed, Lenin went to Switzerland and began reading Hegel's Logic, illustrating that the dash between Marxism and Leninism is a contingent gap, not a development., illustrating Marxism-Leninism as rupture,Logic as revolutionary resource,duality and non-continuity

5:01 Slavoj Zizek: Lenin Was a Radical Opportunistpub. 2021-10-27 · 26:36

After the shock of social-democratic betrayal, Lenin did what every great leftist does in deepest crisis: he moved to a secluded place and began reading Hegel, which Balibar analyses as producing his non-dogmatic 'opportunism'., illustrating Hegel's role in Lenin's thought,non-dogmatic Marxism,radical opportunism

23:15 Perfil Interview2018-09-09 · 2:59:07

When all European socialist parties voted for war credits in WWI and Lenin was devastated, he withdrew to Switzerland and started reading Hegel's Logic, the most abstract Hegel, rather than acting immediately., illustrating Leninism,rethinking everything,theory before action