Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

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Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays is a collection of influential Marxist theoretical writings by Louis Althusser that explores ideology, philosophy, and politics through a structuralist lens.

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A. Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought
Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought is a 1924 philosophical work by György Lukács that analyzes and systematizes Vladimir Lenin’s Marxist theory as a coherent, unified worldview.
B. The State and Revolution
The State and Revolution is a 1917 political theory work by Vladimir Lenin that outlines his vision of the proletarian state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the transition from capitalism to socialism and communism.
C. The Idea of Socialism
The Idea of Socialism is a contemporary philosophical work by Axel Honneth that reinterprets and defends socialism as a normative project grounded in freedom, social cooperation, and democratic will-formation.
D. Lenin’s April Theses
Lenin’s April Theses were a series of radical directives issued by Vladimir Lenin in April 1917 that called for immediate socialist revolution in Russia, withdrawal from World War I, and the transfer of power to the soviets.
E. History of Materialism
History of Materialism is a seminal 19th-century philosophical work that critically examines the development of materialist thought from antiquity to modern science and its implications for metaphysics and epistemology.
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Target entity description: Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays is a collection of influential Marxist theoretical writings by Louis Althusser that explores ideology, philosophy, and politics through a structuralist lens.

A. Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought
Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought is a 1924 philosophical work by György Lukács that analyzes and systematizes Vladimir Lenin’s Marxist theory as a coherent, unified worldview.
B. The State and Revolution
The State and Revolution is a 1917 political theory work by Vladimir Lenin that outlines his vision of the proletarian state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the transition from capitalism to socialism and communism.
C. The Idea of Socialism
The Idea of Socialism is a contemporary philosophical work by Axel Honneth that reinterprets and defends socialism as a normative project grounded in freedom, social cooperation, and democratic will-formation.
D. Lenin’s April Theses
Lenin’s April Theses were a series of radical directives issued by Vladimir Lenin in April 1917 that called for immediate socialist revolution in Russia, withdrawal from World War I, and the transfer of power to the soviets.
E. History of Materialism
History of Materialism is a seminal 19th-century philosophical work that critically examines the development of materialist thought from antiquity to modern science and its implications for metaphysics and epistemology.
F. None of above. chosen

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instanceOf	book ⓘ essay collection ⓘ
author	Louis Althusser ⓘ
containsEssay	Contradiction and Overdetermination ⓘ Freud and Lacan ⓘ linked to: Lacanian psychoanalysis Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses ⓘ Lenin and Philosophy ⓘ linked to: Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays Marxism and Humanism ⓘ linked to: Marxist humanism On the Materialist Dialectic ⓘ linked to: “On the Materialist Dialectic”
countryOfOrigin	France ⓘ
genre	Marxist theory ⓘ philosophy ⓘ political theory ⓘ
hasPerspectiveOn	critique of empiricism ⓘ critique of historicism ⓘ relationship between theory and practice ⓘ role of philosophy in class struggle ⓘ scientific status of Marxism ⓘ state and ideology ⓘ
influencedBy	Jacques Lacan ⓘ Karl Marx ⓘ Sigmund Freud ⓘ Vladimir Lenin ⓘ structuralism ⓘ
language	French ⓘ
mainSubject	Leninism ⓘ Marxism ⓘ epistemology ⓘ ideology ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ political practice ⓘ structuralism ⓘ
notableFor	formulation of the concept of Ideological State Apparatuses ⓘ influence on Marxist literary theory ⓘ influence on political philosophy ⓘ
originalTitle	Lénine et la philosophie et autres essais ⓘ linked to: Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
philosophicalTradition	Western Marxism ⓘ structuralist Marxism ⓘ
publicationPeriod	1960s ⓘ
publisher	Monthly Review Press ⓘ
theoreticalApproach	anti-humanist Marxism ⓘ structural causality ⓘ theory of ideology as material practice ⓘ

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