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Lenin: State and Revolution: Chapter 5 - Withering Away the State (Part Two) Review by Thomas Riggins

Lenin: State and Revolution: Chapter 5 - Withering Away the State (Part Two) Thomas Riggins Chapter 5 of State and Revolution  has a brief introduction and four sections.

A Review of: On the Reproduction of Capitalism (1) by Louis Althusser, translated by G. M. Goshgarian

"...history (political, social, intellectual) has completely shattered the unity, even the problematic unity, of the two discourses that Althusser's 'structural Marxism' sought to combine in such a way that each would help sustain the other; it has relegated them to contexts that hardly communicate now."

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)

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

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

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).

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