During January, the centenary of Lenin's death was rich from an
editorial point of view. Several works, new releases or reissues, allow,
if not to shed light in a new light on the life and work of the
Bolshevik leader, to position ourselves for his rehabilitation or his
definitive burial. ---- La Fabrique editions have, for their part,
chosen rehabilitation: "to read Lenin as a philosopher of language is to
reconnect with a practice of language as a weapon which made Lenin a
formidable polemicist and the thinker of conjuncture ". Nothing less!
The work could have the subtitle "Mastery of language in the service of
Leninism". The thesis defended by its author, the linguist Jean-Jacques
Lecercle, is to demonstrate the usefulness of drinking in the texts of
Vladimir Ilyich Oulianov, making the latter a "philosopher of language".
Without going into linguistics, it is nevertheless worth noting two
strong contradictions in this work. First of all, if we can only share
with the author the fact that language is a weapon and that it is
underpinned by class relations which are also relations of domination,
the work reproduces exactly what he claims to denounce: technical and
arduous language. Second contradiction, if this book intends to teach us
that the "True" is not the same thing as the "Right", the latter being
the true adjusted to the situation, it will not mislead the minds that
are even a little curious and informed about the history of the Russian
Revolution. All powers have claimed, and still claim, to be the
expression of the Truth. Thiers claimed Order and designated disorder,
its antonym. Lenin did the same thing. A little pleasure all the same,
the quotation of this passage from What to do on class consciousness
which can only be brought to the worker (and the worker) from the
outside: this constitutes a definitive admission of the Leninist approach .
Ultimately, why read Lenin, since this was the introductory question of
this book? The author's conclusion calls out: "we will read it,
therefore to continue to think about the revolution, thanks to him and
sometimes in spite of him".
Editions l'Échappée have chosen to celebrate this centenary by reissuing
The Terror under Lenin, initially published in 1975, directed by the
historian Jacques Baynac, in a revised and expanded version by Charles
Jacquier. This time, the "True" challenges the "Righteous" in all its
fullness, the work developing an argument around Leninist terror. Quick
scan of its contents: translations of decrees, articles and official
documents, by Alexandre Skirda who delves into the legal expression of
the phenomenon, another linguistic reality, before studying, further,
revolutionary counter-terror; repression under the Bolshevik regime,
addressed by the Cheka, with comments collected by the office of the
Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party; evocation of terror at the level
of all of Russia in the period 1918-1924, by the historian S. P.
Melgounov; the repression of anarchism in Soviet Russia by the Group of
Russian Anarchists exiled in Germany; the trial of the revolutionary
socialists by W. Woïtinsky, this former Bolshevik, member of the Central
Executive Committee, joined the Mensheviks; a writing by Martov, a
member of the Bund, entitled Down with the death penalty!; an
investigation into the Russian penal colony of Solovki, by Raymond
Duguet; the ethical aspect of the revolution by the People's Commissar
of Justice in 1917-1918, Isaac Z. Steinberg; contribution to the
understanding of Lenin and the Vetcheka, by Michel Heller, French
historian of Russian origin, interned in a work camp in 1950.
As Lenin would have said, "a good communist is also a good Chekist".
Approaching this universe, providing various elements was the objective
of this narration of the phenomenon which developed in December 1917 by
the political police, the Cheka, which later became GPU and then NKVD in
1934. These infamous names will be the evils of the END. Another reality
of Leninist language!
Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)
Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Lenin and the weapon of language, La Fabrique
éditions, 2024, 200 pages, 15 euros.
Jacques Baynac, Terror under Lenin, Édition L'écuée, 2024, 300 pages, 14
euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Jean-Jacques-Lecercle-Lenine-et-l-arme-du-langage-et-Jacques-Baynac-La
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editorial point of view. Several works, new releases or reissues, allow,
if not to shed light in a new light on the life and work of the
Bolshevik leader, to position ourselves for his rehabilitation or his
definitive burial. ---- La Fabrique editions have, for their part,
chosen rehabilitation: "to read Lenin as a philosopher of language is to
reconnect with a practice of language as a weapon which made Lenin a
formidable polemicist and the thinker of conjuncture ". Nothing less!
The work could have the subtitle "Mastery of language in the service of
Leninism". The thesis defended by its author, the linguist Jean-Jacques
Lecercle, is to demonstrate the usefulness of drinking in the texts of
Vladimir Ilyich Oulianov, making the latter a "philosopher of language".
Without going into linguistics, it is nevertheless worth noting two
strong contradictions in this work. First of all, if we can only share
with the author the fact that language is a weapon and that it is
underpinned by class relations which are also relations of domination,
the work reproduces exactly what he claims to denounce: technical and
arduous language. Second contradiction, if this book intends to teach us
that the "True" is not the same thing as the "Right", the latter being
the true adjusted to the situation, it will not mislead the minds that
are even a little curious and informed about the history of the Russian
Revolution. All powers have claimed, and still claim, to be the
expression of the Truth. Thiers claimed Order and designated disorder,
its antonym. Lenin did the same thing. A little pleasure all the same,
the quotation of this passage from What to do on class consciousness
which can only be brought to the worker (and the worker) from the
outside: this constitutes a definitive admission of the Leninist approach .
Ultimately, why read Lenin, since this was the introductory question of
this book? The author's conclusion calls out: "we will read it,
therefore to continue to think about the revolution, thanks to him and
sometimes in spite of him".
Editions l'Échappée have chosen to celebrate this centenary by reissuing
The Terror under Lenin, initially published in 1975, directed by the
historian Jacques Baynac, in a revised and expanded version by Charles
Jacquier. This time, the "True" challenges the "Righteous" in all its
fullness, the work developing an argument around Leninist terror. Quick
scan of its contents: translations of decrees, articles and official
documents, by Alexandre Skirda who delves into the legal expression of
the phenomenon, another linguistic reality, before studying, further,
revolutionary counter-terror; repression under the Bolshevik regime,
addressed by the Cheka, with comments collected by the office of the
Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party; evocation of terror at the level
of all of Russia in the period 1918-1924, by the historian S. P.
Melgounov; the repression of anarchism in Soviet Russia by the Group of
Russian Anarchists exiled in Germany; the trial of the revolutionary
socialists by W. Woïtinsky, this former Bolshevik, member of the Central
Executive Committee, joined the Mensheviks; a writing by Martov, a
member of the Bund, entitled Down with the death penalty!; an
investigation into the Russian penal colony of Solovki, by Raymond
Duguet; the ethical aspect of the revolution by the People's Commissar
of Justice in 1917-1918, Isaac Z. Steinberg; contribution to the
understanding of Lenin and the Vetcheka, by Michel Heller, French
historian of Russian origin, interned in a work camp in 1950.
As Lenin would have said, "a good communist is also a good Chekist".
Approaching this universe, providing various elements was the objective
of this narration of the phenomenon which developed in December 1917 by
the political police, the Cheka, which later became GPU and then NKVD in
1934. These infamous names will be the evils of the END. Another reality
of Leninist language!
Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)
Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Lenin and the weapon of language, La Fabrique
éditions, 2024, 200 pages, 15 euros.
Jacques Baynac, Terror under Lenin, Édition L'écuée, 2024, 300 pages, 14
euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Jean-Jacques-Lecercle-Lenine-et-l-arme-du-langage-et-Jacques-Baynac-La
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