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The State and Revolution
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Nick Girvin
Dec 13, 2021 rated it really liked it
Essential reading for anyone who fancies themselves a Marxist-Leninist. This is a deeper one that can be a bit wordy, but it's all the more important.

It talks mostly on the concept of the state as an organ of its own, and its purpose of being for the use of one class to suppress the other. It sounds rather basic, but the deeper looks from other philosophers of the time, as well as interpretations from Marx and Engels peel back the layers of why the state is ultimately the weapon, and how no true
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Lillian
Jan 28, 2021 rated it it was amazing
Wonderful book. Very enlightening on the genuine Marxist positions concerning the State. Would recommend to every Communist.
Fran Henderson
Dec 28, 2021 rated it it was amazing
V good book
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