The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Author: John Ehrenberg

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Published: 1992

Total Pages: 224

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Offers an analysis of Marx's controversial theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat, arguing that it can no longer be displaced or ignored as the viable democratic centre of Marxist political thought. The book traces the development of the theory from the early work of Marx and Engels to 1924.

The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Author: Vadim Aleksandrovich Bystrianskii

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Published: 1936

Total Pages: 132

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" ... Consists of a collection of articles and extracts ... Systematically compiled ... by V. Bystryansky and M. Mishin ..."--Page [5].

The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky

Author: Vladimir Lenin

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-10

Total Pages: 108

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"The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky," is an influential work where Vladimir Lenin defended the Bolsheviks against criticisms made against them by Karl Kautsky. Lenin's pamphlet was part of an ongoing debate between different Bolshevik leaders and the social democrat Kautsky about the function of democracy and force in the transition to socialism.

The State and Revolution
The State and Revolution

Author: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-11

Total Pages: 114

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'The State and Revolution' is a book by Vladimir Lenin describing the role of the state in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin's direct and simple definition of the State is that "the State is a special organization of force: it is an organization of violence for the suppression of some class." Hence his denigration even of parliamentary democracy, which was influenced by what Lenin saw as the recent increase of bureaucratic and military influences: "To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament – this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics."