State and Revolution
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (855 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1548476315 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 122 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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V.I. Lenin was a leading member of the Bolshevik party in Russia from 1912 until his death in 1924, and is widely considered to have founded a distinct tradition in the struggle for revolutionary socialism, built from below. He is the author of celebrated works of theory such as State and Revolution, as well as widely misunderstood polemics like What is to be Done?Todd Chretien is a frequ
He is the author of celebrated works of theory such as State and Revolution, as well as widely misunderstood polemics like What is to be Done?Todd Chretien is a frequent contributor to Socialist Worker and the ISR.. Lenin was a leading member of the Bolshevik party in Russia from 1912 until his death in 1924, and is widely considered to have founded a distinct tradition in the struggle for revolutionary socialism, built from below. About the AuthorV.I
Mainly Revolution I purchased and read this book after reading the Communist Manifesto and Capital by Karl Marx. I was trying to get my head around the Marxist world view, since I basically found myself agreeing with with most of what I was reading. I've heard terrible things about Lenin and wanted to find out fr. "Poor translation" according to Nicholas Johnson. Lots of paragraphs seem jumbled or out of order or perhaps even missing entire words, not sure what was going on but it made it difficult to read in places.. M. A. ZAIDI said The communist ideology. Lenin wrote `The State and Revolution' as the task of achieving socialism in modern industrial society. He focused on the relationship between the state and classes both in the past and in the future. He asserted that the government and their subordinate agencies were not impartial in handling c
As both historical document and political statement, its importance can hardly be exaggerated.. It was here that Lenin justified his personal interpretation of Marxism, savaged his opponents and set out his trenchant views on class conflict, the lessons of earlier revolutions, the dismantling of the bourgeois state and the replacement of capitalism by the dictatorship of the proletariat. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork The State and Revolution. This powerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regime and a wealth of insights into Leninist politics. In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power