Ep 3.8 - The State and Revolution, Chapter Three
Added 2021-12-22 00:02:47 +0000 UTCAfter some necessary detours to learn about the Paris Commune and, um, the Gucci family, Jamie and Jorge return to State and Rev for a deep dive on Chapter 3. Drawing from the experience of the Paris Commune, Lenin explains the necessity of smashing the bourgeois state machinery and replacing it with a "dictatorship of the proletariat," a.k.a. the proletariat organized as the ruling class. What does this mean? What does it look like? Can the state really just wither away? J+J discuss.
Chapter 3:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch03.htm#s3
Viewpoint Mag article referenced by Jamie:
https://viewpointmag.com/2014/10/12/the-ends-of-the-state/
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