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The State and Revolution
Note from the Lenin Internet Archive
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter I: Class Society and the State
1. The State: A Product of the Irreconcilability of Class Antagonisms
2. Special Bodies of Armed Men, Prisons, etc.
3. The State: an Instrument for the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class
4. The “Withering Away” of the State, and Violent Revolution
Chapter II: The Experience of 1848-51
1. The Eve of Revolution
2. The Revolution Summed Up
3. The Presentation of the Question by Marx in 1852
Chapter III: Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx’s Analysis
1. What Made the Communards’ Attempt Heroic?
2. What is to Replace the Smashed State Machine?
3. Abolition of Parliamentarism
4. Organisation of National Unity
5. Abolition of the Parasite State
Chapter IV: Supplementary Explanations by Engels
1. The Housing Question
2. Controversy with the Anarchists
3. Letter to Bebel
4. Criticism of the Draft of the Erfurt Programme
5. The 1891 Preface to Marx’s “The Civil War in France”
6. Engels on the Overcoming of Democracy
Chapter V: The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State
1. Presentation of the Question by Marx
2. The Transition from Capitalism to Communism
3. The First Phase of Communist Society
4. The Higher Phase of Communist Society
Chapter VI: The Vulgarisation of Marxism by Opportunists
1. Plekhanov’ s Controversy with the Anarchists
2. Kautsky’s Controversy with the Opportunists
3. Kautsky’s Controversy with Pannekoek
Chapter VII: The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917
Postscript to the First Edition
Notes
Vladimir Lenin
The State and Revolution