The Vladimir Lenin Collection: State and Revolution, What Is to Be Done?, & Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism - Vladimir Lenin
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924) is better known by his alias Lenin. A Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, he served as the head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia became the Soviet Union, a one-party state governed by the Communist Party.
The Vladimir Lenin Collection includes:
Book one: State and Revolution discusses the role of the state in society, the need for proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inability of social democracy to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin’s definition of the state is “A special organisation of force: it is an organisation of violence for the suppression of some class”. Quoting Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, Lenin investigates theoretical questions about the existence of the state after the proletarian revolution, addressing the arguments of anarchists, social democrats, and reformists. He describes the progressive stages of societal change as the revolution that establishes “the lower stage of communist society” and the “higher stage of communist society” that would yield a stable society where personal freedom might be expressed.
Book two: What Is to Be Done? (1902) is a political pamphlet in which Lenin contends that the working class will not become politically aware simply by struggling with employers over wages, hours, and working conditions. He maintains that Marxists should form a political party of committed revolutionaries to spread Marxist political ideas among the workers. The pamphlet was partly responsible for the split of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party into Lenin’s Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Claiming that socialist theory was the product of the “revolutionary socialist intellectuals”, Lenin states that the working class was able to develop only a “trade-union consciousness”. He points out that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the founders of modern scientific socialism, belonged to this bourgeois intelligentsia.
Book three: “Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism”, a 1916 essay by Lenin, was an early attempt to account for the increasing importance of the global market in the 20th century. Lenin claims that colonialism and the First World War emerged from the worldwide spread of the capitalist economy. In the course of colonizing undeveloped countries, the great powers: the German, British, French, and Russian empires eventually engage in geopolitical conflict over the economic exploitation of large portions of the globe. Furthermore, in the capitalist homeland, the profits generated by the exploitation of colonies allow the business class to bribe native politicians, labor leaders, and the labor aristocracy in order to thwart worker revolts. The essay is a synthesis of Lenin’s development of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in Das Kapital (1867).
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This post has 13 comments with rating of 4.3/5
May 15th, 2021
Commie rubbish. Looks like it’s time to bring back McCarthyism.
May 16th, 2021
@lisiva5995: Pleae, gop bacvk to Breitbart.
This is not a venue to vent about your political feelings. It’s a site about sharing books.
May 17th, 2021
PS. Apologies for awful typos above.
Also apologies to anyone reading comments under the political books. The right wing nut jobs crap all over them.
May 18th, 2021
Thank youuuu! We can easily find liberal and conservative audiobooks in here, it’s about time there were some communists ones too. Keep up the good work and for some of you who don’t like it just ignore it like I do with the ones that I think it’s rubbish. Don’t forget what you supposedly defend: free-speech 😉
May 18th, 2021
Read Lenin if you’re curious, and then read Solzhenitzyn to understand the difference between the theory and the real thing. I lived almost 40 years in a communist country and I cannot understand how blind and stupid you need to be to be a communist today. Lenin murdered more humans than Hitler and some people would like to repeat it…
May 20th, 2021
wlowoj No, read Lenin and then read Emma Goldman’s My Disillusionment in Russia, since that condemns the USSR in far less words and happens to actually be in tune to the fact that Lenin was actually, and by his own admission, pursuing state – as well as private – capitalism. You’re not being truthful, only useful.
June 8th, 2021
Oh dear…
More digital toilet paper…
June 11th, 2021
“The state must be smashed!” –Lenin
If you desire a world without governments and politicians, this book is for you :)
June 27th, 2021
But didn’t Vlad et al merely engineer an even more controlling, repressive, genocidal, slave state? A blueprint for the appalling systems which followed?
August 2nd, 2021
Thanks a lot. A real treasure
March 26th, 2022
Previous critical commenters obviously know nothing about either Lenin or Marxist-Leninism. No, Lenin didn’t want to eliminate the state, he wanted to replace the fake democracy of the capitalist state with a state controlled by the working class, which is what the October Revolution accomplished.
This led to an unparalleled era of human flourishing, where, among other things, Russia’s former colonies were given complete equality in the Union, including veto power over laws, to stop Russia using its large population to run roughshod over them. But this comment section isn’t the place to list all the achievements of the Soviet Union.
Those who mock the idea of the withering away of the state, as though Marxist-Leninists are idealistic enough to believe that the state can simply be dismantled, take part of the original quote from Marx out of context and misunderstand it. You will understand it, however, after you read State and Revolution.
Enjoy your studies, comrades
March 25th, 2023
Thank you, comrade @Nao22
November 9th, 2024
I almost forgot Lenin was a great writer
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