Using Gramsci's concept of 'hegemony' Alan Shandro offers an original interpretation of Lenin's political practice and theory.
Through a careful textual analysis of the writings of Lenin and his contemporaries, Shandro traces the ways in which Lenin's political practice and theory led him to the 'philosophical fact' of hegemony. This original and groundbreaking investigation demolishes many of caricatures of Lenin's role as political actor and thinker, and illuminates the underlying parameters of hegemony within the class struggle.

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 unearths the underlying parameters of the concept of hegemony in the class struggle. He thereby clarifies the conceptual status of this...