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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.

Lenin on the Need for Political Compromise by Thomas Riggins

 Current political struggles often echo those of the past.

Lenin on Marxism and Bourgeois Democracy by Thomas Riggins

In chapter seven of "'Left-Wing' Communism an Infantile Disorder" Lenin addresses himself to the ultra-left claim that socialists should no longer work with or be members of bourgeois parliaments.

Lenin on the Role of a Marxist Party in Relation to the People: Chapter Five of 'Left Wing' Communism an Infantile Disorder by Thomas Riggins

Lenin on the Role of a Marxist Party in Relation to the People: Chapter Five of 'Left Wing' Communism an Infantile DisorderThomas RigginsLenin in 1920 made an analysis of the political conditions in Germany after the failure of  the Communist (Spartacus League) uprising in 1918.

The Russian Revolution: An Essential Condition for Success

Thomas RigginsIn the second chapter of his 1920 work "Left Wing" Communism an Infantile Disorder, Lenin discusses what he considers to have been an essential condition for the victory of the Bolsheviks.

The Russian Revolution Today?

In 1920 Lenin expressed his views on the international significance of the Russian Revolution [Chapter 1 of "Left Wing" Communism an Infantile Disorder].

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