SOURCE / edition
The State and Revolution
About this source
Robert Service's translated and edited Penguin Classics edition consulted for Lenin's proposed revolutionary state and higher communist phase.
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Where this source is used
Lenin argues that a proletarian state must replace the bourgeois state during revolution and exercise coercive power against the former ruling class.
- supports · chapter I §4 in the 2009 Service translation
Lenin argues that the proletarian state becomes unnecessary and withers away only after class domination no longer requires a coercive state apparatus.
- supports · chapter I §4 and chapter V §§1–4 in the 2009 Service translation
Lenin and Kropotkin advance opposed communist accounts of revolutionary political organization: Lenin proposes a transitional proletarian state, while Kropotkin proposes stateless direct organization.
- context · chapters I and V