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On the eve of the October Revolution, with the state machinery of the old order in collapse, V.I. Lenin penned his most concentrated work of political theory. State and Revolution is a forceful return to the core Marxist teachings on the state, arguing that it is not a neutral arbiter but an instrument of class oppression—"special bodies of armed men" serving the ruling class.
Lenin systematically dismantles reformist illusions, insisting that the proletariat cannot simply take over the existing bourgeois state; it must smash it. Drawing extensively from Marx and Engels, he outlines the necessity of a violent revolution to replace it with a new, transitional "dictatorship of the proletariat"—a state of the majority, which would begin to wither away immediately as class distinctions dissolve. He vividly imagines this new commune-state, where all officials are elected, paid average workers' wages, and subject to instant recall.
This is a practical manual for seizing and transforming power. Urgent, polemical, and uncompromising, State and Revolution articulates the philosophical and organizational justification for the Bolshevik path. It remains one of the most influential and controversial political manifestos ever written, a stark vision of the destruction of the old world and the fraught, uncertain birth of the new.
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Table of contents
1By Lenin in Cactus Catalogue:
19 5. Abolition of the Parasite State
2Preface to the First Edition
20Supplementary explanation by Engels
3Preface to the Second Edition : Endnotes
21 1. The Housing Question
4Endnotes
22 Controversy with the Anarchists
5Class society and State
23Letter to Bebel
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61. The State: A Product of the Irreconcilability of Class Antagonisms
24 2. Criticism of the Draft of the Erfurt Programme
7 2. Special Bodies of Armed Men, Prisons, etc.
25 The 1891 Preface to Marx's "The Civil War in France"
8 3. The State: an Instrument for the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class
26Engels on the Overcoming of Democracy
9 4. The “Withering Away” of the State, and Violent Revolution
27The economic basis on the withering away of the State
10The experience of 1848-1851
28 1. Presentation of the Question by Marx
111. The Eve of Revolution
29 2. The Transition from Capitalism to Communism
12 2. The Revolution Summed Up
30 3. The First Phase of Communist Society
13 3. The Presentation of the Question by Marx in 1852
314. The Higher Phase of Communist Society
14Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx’s analysis
32The vulgarisation of Marxism by the opportunists
151. What Made the Communards' Attempt Heroic?
33 1. Plekhanov’ s Controversy with the Anarchists
16 2. What is to Replace the Smashed State Machine?
34 2. Kautsky’ s Controversy with the Opportunists
17 3. Abolition of Parliamentarism
35 3. Kautsky’ s Controversy with Pannekoek
18 4. Organisation of National Unity
36PostScript to the First Edition
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