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The State and Revolution (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) ISBN: 014018435X ISBN13: 9780140184358 The State and Revolution (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) By: V.I. Lenin : Edited by Robert Service Publisher: Penguin Classics Format: Paperback Our Price: 7.73 Discount: 14% RRP: 8.99

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State and Revolution was written by Lenin during August-September, 1917, while he was living in hiding in Helsingfors. It was not published, however, until 1918. According to the draft of the original plan made by Lenin, the work was to contain not only a theoretical analysis of the theory of the state by Marx and Engels, but also a consideration of the 'the experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917' from the point of view of this theory. But the October Revolution and the necessity to devote every effort to the immediate practical work interfered with the conclusion of the work begun.


Contents:

Part 1 Class society and the state: the state as the product of the irreconcilability of class contradictions
- special bodies of armed men, prisons, etc.
- the state as an instrument for the exploitation of the oppressed class
- the withering away of the state and violent revolution

Part 2 The state and revolution - the experience of 1848-51: the eve of the revolution
- the revolution in summary
- the presentation of the question by Marx in 1852

Part 3 The state and revolution - the experience of the Paris Commune of 1871 - Marx's analysis: what was heroic about the Communards' attempt?
- with what is the smashed state machine to be replaced?
- the eradication of the parliamentarianism
- organization of the unity of the nation
- the destruction of the parasite state

Part 4 Continuation - supplementary clarifications by Engels: the housing question
- the polemic with the anarchists
- letter to Bebel
- critique of the draft of the Erfurt Programme
- the 1891 Preface to Marx's The Civil War in France
- Engels on the overcoming of democracy

Part 5 The economic basis for the withering away of the state: the presentation of the question by Marx
- the transition from capitalism to Communisim
- the first phase of Communist society
- the higher phase of Communist society

Part 6 The vulgarization of Marxism by the opportunists: Plekhanov's polemic with the Anarchists
- Kautsky's polemic with the opportunists
- Kautsky's polemic with Pannekoek

Part 7 The experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.

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