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Lenin on the State and Revolution: The Withering Away of the State, Review (part one) by Thomas Riggins

Lenin: State and Revolution: Chapter 5 - Withering Away the State (Part One)

Eleanor Marx: A Life [Book Note] by Thomas Riggins

Eleanor Marx: A Life [Book Note]

Lenin on the State and Revolution: Engels' Comments by Thomas Riggins

Lenin on the State and Revolution: The Paris Commune (1871)-- Comments by Engels

Lenin on the Paris Commune (1871) An Heroic Struggle by Thomas Riggins

Chapter Three of State and Revolution is devoted to Lenin's commentary on Marx's analysis of the 1871 Paris Commune.

Smash or be Smashed? Lenin's Theory of the State by Thomas Riggins

In  Chapter Two of State and Revolution Lenin discusses the lessons of the European revolutionary movement of 1848-51 There are three sections to this chapter.

The Withering Away of the State by Thomas Riggins

Lenin on the "Withering Away'' of the State and Violent RevolutionThomas RigginsLenin discusses these two topics in section four of chapter one of The State and Revolution (1917).

Lenin on Class Society and the State by Thomas Riggins

State and Revolution Chapter One "Class Society and the State".

Engles on Authority

At a certain point...and some comrades and friends would argue that we've passed this point...the Occupy Movement is going to have to come to terms with the  fact that higher forms of organization are needed.