The State and Revolution

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The State and Revolution

The State and Revolution

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter I: Class Society and the State

Chapter II: The Experience of 1848-51

Chapter III: Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871: Marx's Analysis

Chapter IV: Supplementary Explanations by Engels

Chapter V: The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State

Original footnotes

Chapter VI: The Vulgarisation of Marxism by Opportunists

The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917

Postscript

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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“Having pubic power and the right to levy taxes,” Engels writes, “the officials now stand, as organs of society, above society. The free, voluntary respect that was accorded to the organs of the gentile [clan] constitution does not satisfy them, even if they could gain it....” Special laws are enacted proclaiming the sanctity and immunity of the officials. “The shabbiest police servant” has more “authority” than the representative of the clan, but even the head of the military power of a civilized state may well envy the elder of a clan the “unrestrained respect” of society.

The question of the privileged position of the officials as organs of 3. The State: an Instrument for the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class state power is raised here. The main point indicated is: what is it that places them above society? We shall see how this theoretical question was answered in practice by the Paris Commune in 1871 and how it was obscured from a reactionary standpoint by kautsky in 1912.

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