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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:
2Preface to the First Edition
3Preface to the Second Edition : Endnotes
4Endnotes
5Class society and State
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61. The State: A Product of the Irreconcilability of Class Antagonisms
7 2. Special Bodies of Armed Men, Prisons, etc.
8 3. The State: an Instrument for the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class
9 4. The “Withering Away” of the State, and Violent Revolution
10The experience of 1848-1851
111. The Eve of Revolution
12 2. The Revolution Summed Up
13 3. The Presentation of the Question by Marx in 1852
14Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx’s analysis
151. What Made the Communards' Attempt Heroic?
16 2. What is to Replace the Smashed State Machine?
17 3. Abolition of Parliamentarism
18 4. Organisation of National Unity
19 5. Abolition of the Parasite State
20Supplementary explanation by Engels
21 1. The Housing Question
22 Controversy with the Anarchists
23Letter to Bebel
24 2. Criticism of the Draft of the Erfurt Programme
25 The 1891 Preface to Marx's "The Civil War in France"
26Engels on the Overcoming of Democracy
27The economic basis on the withering away of the State
28 1. Presentation of the Question by Marx
29 2. The Transition from Capitalism to Communism
30 3. The First Phase of Communist Society
314. The Higher Phase of Communist Society
32The vulgarisation of Marxism by the opportunists
33 1. Plekhanov’ s Controversy with the Anarchists
34 2. Kautsky’ s Controversy with the Opportunists
35 3. Kautsky’ s Controversy with Pannekoek
36PostScript to the First Edition
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