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The State and Revolution dives further into the topic of the State. It explains what the State is, what role …
The State and Revolution dives further into the topic of the State. It explains what the State is, what role …
The State and Revolution dives further into the topic of the State. It explains what …
Lastly, only communism makes the state absolutely unnecessary, for there is nobody to be suppressed— “nobody” in the sense of a class, of a systematic struggle against a definite section of the population. We are not utopians, and do not in the least deny the possibility and inevitability of excesses on the part of individual persons, or the need to stop such excesses. In the first place, however, no special machine, no special apparatus of suppression, is needed for this: this will be done by the armed people themselves, as simply and as readily as any crowd of civilized people, even in modern society, interferes to put a stop to a scuffle or to prevent a woman from being assaulted. And, secondly, we know that the fundamental social cause of excesses, which consist in the violation of the rules of social intercourse, is the exploitation of the people, their wants and their poverty. With the removal of this chief cause, excesses will inevitably begin to “wither away”. We do not know how quickly and in what succession, but we do know they will wither away. With their withering away the state will also wither away.
— The State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilich Lenin (Page 103)
This quote is very good to use when people ask how communism (from each according to their ability, to each according to their need) would deal with people who wish to take advantage if there is no state to enforce laws.
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology—terms often …
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology—terms often …
Friedrich Engels is best known for contributing to Marxism, particularly with Marx on the Communist …
A very good book on Historical and Dialectical Materialism if you are just beginning your studies, but this particular version is very poorly formatted and made. Do not buy it
Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Joseph Stalin is a central text within the Soviet Union's political theory Marxism-Leninism. Originally published …
Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Joseph Stalin is a central text within the Soviet Union's political theory Marxism-Leninism. Originally published …
The State and Revolution dives further into the topic of the State. It explains what the State is, what role …
A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. …
A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. …
Eugenia Grimm is a tough girl living in a tough town at the foothills of …
Eugenia Grimm is a tough girl living in a tough town at the foothills of …
"I don't much mind the smell of horse crap," Nathan said, shovelling it onto the trailer.
— You Don't Have to Die in the End by Anita Daher (Page 84)
Eugenia Grimm is a tough girl living in a tough town at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. She drinks …