Ep 3.8 - The State and Revolution, Chapter Three (Patreon)

After 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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