The State and Revolution

Paperback, 103 pages

English language

Published April 12, 1943 by New York, International Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-7178-0196-1
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Hard to know where to begin with a book like this. It's been a long while since I last read it, and a significant amount of academic study and development has taken place in the intervening years. It's also hard to know how one even applies something so pithy as a 'rating' to a book whose importance and influence of such a magnittude. There's little I can contribute which has not been said before, many times, and by far greater readers and thinkers than I. For me, there are two major points which we can take from this book:

The first is that this provides a fascinating and concise clarification of Marx and Engels' conception of the development of Capitalism into Communism and the relationship of the revolutionary proletariat to the state. Lenin convincingly shows, with substantial textual evidence from both the public writings and private correspondence of both Marx …

Subjects

  • Socialism
  • Politics / Current Events
  • General
  • Revolutions
  • State, The

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