Preface Acknowledgements List of Diagrams, Figures and Tables Introduction How Should the Global Transition Be Understood? Toward a Methodology of the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism  1 Marxism in Post-Soviet Russia: From Orthodoxy to the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism  1.1 Russia Since 2000: The Spectre of Marxist Studies  1.2 The Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism: An Introduction  2 Obsolete Postmodernism: The Dialectics of Non-linear, Multi-scenario Social Transformations  2.1 On Some of the Reasons for “Forgetting” Dialectics  2.2 New Answers to the Challenges of new Problems: The Dialectics of the Decline and Genesis of Social Systems  3 Beyond the “Pyatichlenka” and “The Collapse of Civilisations”: The Social Creativity of Free Association vs. Activism  3.1 Beyond the Realm of Economic Necessity: The Dialectics of Progress/Regression  3.2 The Individual in History: The Activism of Agents of Progress and Regression Part 1 Context: Culture and Revolution 1 Revolution From October 1917 Towards Communism  1 Toward a Theory of Communist Revolution: Some Additions to the Traditional Positions of Marx and Lenin  2 Revolution as the Practice of Social Creativity: The Masses and the Intelligentsia, the Social Creator and the Boor  3 The October Revolution: Practice as the Impulse for the Development of Theory 2 Culture Bakhtin and Dialectics  1 Why Bakhtin?  2 The World of Bakhtin: Prologue  3 Dialectics as the Basis of Bakhtin’s World  4 Dialogue: A Window into the World of Collaborative Creativity  5 Vivat Carnival!  6 Why do they Need Bakhtin?  7 Bakhtin Versus Post-modernism: Integrity and Responsible Activity  8 Bakhtin Versus Post-modernism: “Oneness” and the “Philosophy of the Deed”  9 Bakhtin Versus Post-modernism: Humanism  10 Bakhtin Versus Post-modernism: Epistemology  11 Bakhtin Versus Post-modernism: Historicism 3 Revolution and Culture Bakhtin, Mayakovsky and Lenin  1 Revealing the Concept (in Place of a Foreword)  2 Culture as Revolution: Creation vs. Alienation. Bakhtin and Lenin  3 Revolution as Culture: The Proletkult and/or Soviet Culture. Lenin and Mayakovsky  4 P.S. Revolution, that Gives Birth to Culture: The Renaissance, the ussr and the End of the “End of History” (in Place of a Conclusion) Part 2 ussr : Birth, Death and Future 4 The Birth Lenin  1 Creating the Impossible: Lessons of Lenin’s Legacy (to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of V.I. Ulyanov-Lenin)  2 But at the Same Time as the Revolution was Inevitable, it Lacked Sufficient Preconditions 5 Death The Contradictions of the System and the Lessons of its Collapse  1 Why and How the ussr Departed from the Scene: Toward a Systematisation of the Main Approaches  2 The Path to the “Realm of Freedom”, or the Red Line of History: A Theoretical-Methodological Interpretation  3 The ussr : The Hypothesis of Mutant Socialism  4 The Social Forces of Development and the Downfall of the ussr : The Creators of the Future, the “Red” Bureaucracy and Philistinism  5 The Immediate Reason for the Demise of the ussr : The Strengthening and Subsequent Degeneration of the “Red” Bureaucracy as the Social Creativity of the Masses Expired  6 The Underlying Causes of the Downfall of the ussr  7 The Degradation of the “Red Line”, and the Reasons for the Disintegration of the ussr  8 The Tragedy of Socialism 6 The Future Soviet Culture and its Renaissance  1 The Question of Subjecthood  2 The Renaissance and Soviet Culture: Fundamental Traits  3 The Renaissance and Soviet Culture: Contradictions in Common Part 3 Russia- xxi : Why Stagnation? 7 Political Economy The Jurassic Park of Russian Capitalism  1 The Russian Market: Those Who Win Are Not the Best Runners, but the Best Sack-Racers  2 The Owners of Russia: the Anatomy of the “Dinosaurs” Property Relations and Rights: The Peculiarities of Russia  3 Clan-Corporate Groups: Their Structure and Channels of Power  4 The Process of Reproduction in Russia: How Capital Prefers to Parasitise Social and Natural Resources, and Acts as a Brake on Social Development  5 The Parasitising of Natural Rent and the Ageing of Fixed Capital  6 Social Obstacles to the Transition to an Intensive Type of Reproduction 8 Culture The Destruction of Individuality in a World of Simulacra  1 Introduction  2 Negation as a Simulacrum of Transition  3 Culture as Market  4 The Present-Day Basis of Our Existence Has Already Exhausted Itself  5 Cultures and the Market: What Relations between Them Are Possible?  6 Simulative Consumption  7 Culture as an Industry of Alienation  8 Breaking the Tie with the Ancestral Human  9 The Abstract Nature of the Being of the Individual  10 The Negation of Subjecthood – the Rejection of the Idea of the Individual  11 Culture as Market  12 The Media Industry – the Production of the Private Person  13 Conclusion Part 4 The History of the Future 9 The End of the “End of the History”  1 The Red and the Black: The Conflict Has Never Ended  2 The Measure of the Socialisation of Capitalism: Growth ‒ Contraction ‒ Renewed Growth?  3 Why Has the Liberal Project, Whose Triumph Was Celebrated Thirty Years Ago, Been Unable to Clinch its Final Victory?  4 The “End of History” Had Come to an End  5 In Search of Alternatives to Conservative Liberalism  6 An era of Growing Economic, Social, Political and Ideological Conflicts Is Approaching  7 Toward a Criticism of Our Critics 10 The Contradictions of Globalization and the Future of Alterglobalism  1 From Neoliberal Globalization to a New Empire  2 The Phenomenology of Alterglobalism  3 The Technological, Economic and Social Preconditions for Alterglobalism  4 Principles and Contradictions of the Alterglobalist Movement  5 The Positive Program of Alterglobalism. 11 Communism as It Is Today  1 Žižek from a Different Angle: Communism as a Question for Our Times (in Place of an Introduction)  2 Towards a Practical Strategy for Abolishing Intellectual Private Property and the Exploitation of Creative Activity  3 Associated Social Creativity: Communism as the Practice of Consciously Changing the World  4 Beyond the State: Free, Voluntary Working Association as an Abstraction of the Practical and Timely Forms for Doing Away with the State  5 Doing Away with Social Alienation: The Struggle for Nature, Society, Humanity and Culture as Communism  6 Communism as Theory Postscript 12 The Coronavirus is Stirring the Impulse to Communism  1 Self-isolation as the Road to … Solidarity  2 The Virus Is “Democratic” – Consequently, Social Justice Is to Everyone’s Advantage  3 Closed Borders as a Prologue to … Internationalism  Conclusion Index

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