State and Revolution - The Marxist Theory of State Tasks of Proletariat in Revolution

Lenin’s most important and controversial theoretical text

List of contents

Introduction by Antonio Negri

Preface to First Edition
Preface to Second Edition

1: Class Society and the State
The State: A Product of the Irreconcilability of Class Antagonisms
Special Bodies of Armed Men, Prisons, etc.
The State: An Instrument for the Exploitation
of the Oppressed Class
The ‘Withering Away’ of the State,
and Violent Revolution

2: The Experience of 1848–51
The Eve of Revolution
The Revolution Summed Up
The Presentation of the Question by Marx in 1852

3: Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx’s Analysis
What Made the Communards’ Attempt Heroic?
What Is To Replace the Smashed State Machine?
Abolition of Parliamentarism
Organization of National Unity
Abolition of the Parasite State

4: Supplementary Explanations by Engels
The Housing Question
Controversy with the Anarchists
Letter to Bebel
Criticism of the Draft of the Erfurt Programme
The 1891 Preface to Marx’s The Civil War in France
Engels on the Overcoming of Democracy

5: The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State
Presentation of the Question by Marx
The Transition from Capitalism to Communism
The First Phase of Communist Society
The Higher Phase of Communist Society

6: The Vulgarization of Marxism by Opportunists
Plekhanov’s Controversy with the Anarchists
Kautsky’s Controversy with the Opportunists
Kautsky’s Controversy with Pannekoek

Postscript

About the author

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (1870-1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He played a leading role in the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917.Antonio Negri (1933-2023) taught philosophy and political science at the Universities of Padua and Paris; he was also a political prisoner in Italy and a political refugee in France. He was the author of over thirty books, including Political Descartes, Marx Beyond Marx, The Savage Anomaly, The Politics of Subversion, Insurgencies, Subversive Spinoza, and Time for Revolution, and, in collaboration with Michael Hardt, Labor of Dionysus, Empire and Multitude.

Summary

Lenin's most important and controversial theoretical text

Product details

• Authors: V I Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
• Assisted by: Negri Antonio (Introduction)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781804292846
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-284-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: The Lenin Quintet, 1924-2024
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Russian Revolution, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Far-left political ideologies and movements, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Marxism & Communism, 1917–1923 (Russian Revolutionary period), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era, HISTORY / Russia / Imperial, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions