This chapter examines visions of the state in Muscovy in the mid-seventeenth century. It first considers the New Chronicle, a historical text that documents the thirty-year period from Ivan IV’s ...death in 1584 to the early years of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich’s reign, and particularly its take on the issues of royal legitimacy and pretense. It then discusses the manuscript On Russia in the Reign of Aleksei Mikhailovich, purportedly written by Grigorii Karpov Kotoshikhin, who was accused of committing treason to Muscovy in 1663. It also analyzes the utopianism of Stepan Timofeevich Razin, who led the insurrection that engulfed the Don and Volga river basins from June 1670 through the summer of 1671.
This chapter presents the following equation: Christ = science of Christ = gnosis, along with its corollary, gnosis vs. theology and christology. The equation shows that Christ is simply the name of ...the science of Christ, that its other name is gnosis, and that “gnostic theology” therefore means that theology is abased (without being completely negated) as object of gnosis. Nothing in these radical axioms belongs to any known Christianity. The chapter proposes an “epistemic” framework in which gnosis represents the bringing together of positive knowledges, including philosophy, within a human-oriented cognizance of them. It also considers the broad characteristics of a gnostic ethics without religious or metaphysical foundation, but with only a generic foundation. Finally, it examines the Principle of Sufficient Nonknowledge, science as generic gnosis that fuses theology and quantum theory, the physics of Christ and the Principle of Nonsufficient Science, incarnation as a dialectical concept, and Christ's insurrection and the abasement of God.
This chapter examines Vladimir Lenin’s claim that insurrection is art and practice of the masses. It considers issues relating to Lenin’s political practice in the Soviets and their relation to the ...workers’ party; Lenin’s dialectical methodology in relation to Marxist tradition; the problem of the withering-away of the state, posited in The State and Revolution and also confronted in other preparatory texts on Marxist state theory; and the questions raised by the polemic on extremism. It also discusses some of the elements that are valid as determinations of a continuous weaving of revolutionary practice, or of a theory of revolution as science rather than ideology, as well as the extent to which recalling Lenin can configure a point of reference for working-class theory. Finally, it relates Leninism to the “question of the withering-away of the state” and Lenin’s notion of insurrection based on the dynamic relationship between the movement of organization and the revolutionary movement of the oppressed masses.
This chapter examines the Soviet form of the masses as the socialization of workers’ power and mediating organ of insurrection. The resonance of the slogan “All power to the Soviets” marked the ...beginning of insurrection: from the dualism of power, to the storming of the Winter Palace, to the dictatorship of the proletariat. The antagonism of the capital relation not only needs to be dominated from within, from the organization of Soviets as organs of power, but must also be destroyed by the Soviets’ initiative as organs of struggle and insurrection. This is the red thread in Vladimir Lenin’s teachings. This chapter considers the way Lenin looks to the management of the spaces of power seized after the defeat of the revolution of 1905 in the absence of an impending insurrection, along with Leninism’s dialectical concept of revolutionary inversion of praxis. It also discusses the Leninist notion of the shift from the theory of insurrection to the practice of civil war and argues that the Soviet form of the masses as a whole of red bases and initiatives of struggle against work is accumulating and creating terrible offensive functions. In this, Leninism not only lives, it is revived.
The interwar colonial period in the Congo is often considered as a peaceful and stable example of the ideal Belgian rule. Revolts and contestations arose before and after, but not during these twenty ...years. It is the aim of the article to counter this idea by providing proof of the contrary. The evidence that is presented here focuses on three districts that were located in the central Congo, namely the Equateur/Tshuapa district, the Lac Lopold II district and the Sankuru district. The majority of the information is based on colonial archival data. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
L'article interroge la production, l'usage et la collection de l'objet écrit que constitue le timbre-poste en Pologne tour à tour pendant l'insurrection de Varsovie en août 1944, au sein des lieux ...d'enfermement des militants du syndicat Solidarité après l'état de guerre de 1980, mais aussi à l'extérieur et à l'étranger. Analysant ces micro-scènes d'écriture, il met l'accent sur la fonction de ces pratiques et de certains de ses acteurs, les jeunes scouts, dans la mobilisation d'une mémoire de la résistance dans la Pologne contemporaine. Reproduced by permission of Bibliothèque de Sciences Po
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