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The State and Revolution is considered to be Lenin's most important work on the state and has been called by Lucio Colletti "Lenin's greatest contribution to political theory". [2] According to the Marxologist David McLellan , "the book had its origin in Lenin's argument with Bukharin in the summer of 1916 over the existence of the state after ...
Lenin insisted on the rapid distribution of the book and stressed that "not only literary but also serious political obligations" were involved in its publication. [4] The book was written as a reaction and criticism to the three-volume work Empiriomonism (1904–1906) by Alexander Bogdanov, his political opponent within the Party. In June 1909 ...
Lenin's ideological contributions to the Marxist ideology relate to his theories on the party, imperialism, the state, and revolution. [1] The function of the Leninist vanguard party is to provide the working classes with the political consciousness (education and organisation) and revolutionary leadership necessary to depose capitalism. [2]
In his book Revolutionary Strategy marxist theoretician Mike Macnair points to Chartism as the fourth source of marxism and links its omission by Lenin to "both the general loss of democratic-republican understanding in the Second International, and the specific political regression of the British labour movement after 1871". [1]
[3]: 30 Lenin argues that understanding politics requires understanding all of society, not just workers and their economic struggles with their employers. Class political consciousness can be brought to the workers only from without ; that is, only from outside the economic struggle, from outside the sphere of relations between workers and ...
Year [note 1] New Economic Developments in Peasant Life: 1893 On the So-called Market Question: 1893 What the Friends of the People are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats: 1894 The Economic Content of Narodism and the Criticism of it in Mr. Struve's Book. (The Reflection of Marxism in Bourgeois Literature. 1894 Frederick Engels: 1895
Lenin's socio-political analysis of empire as the ultimate stage of capitalism derived from Imperialism: A Study (1902) by John A. Hobson, an English economist, and Finance Capital (Das Finanzcapital, 1910) by Rudolf Hilferding, an Austrian Marxist, whose syntheses Lenin applied to the geopolitical circumstances of the First World War, caused ...
Lenin thought that a democratic dictatorship of the workers and peasants could complete the tasks of the bourgeoisie. [13] By 1917, Lenin was arguing not only that the Russian bourgeoisie would not be able to carry through the tasks of the bourgeois-democratic revolution and therefore the proletariat had to take state power, but also that it ...