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State and Revolution: Marx, Lenin, & the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Red Menace

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Lennon's Optimism About the Development of the Global Revolution

Lennon: The manifestation that the dictatorship the proletariat takes is going to be a reflection of the conditions in which it emerges. If you don't have sort of theab to overthrow a national state, but you exist sort of in these marginal spaces,  is that still a dictatorship of the proletariat? I think i would lean toward saying that. if it's not, it's at least a pre formulation of it in a way that could be agitated further as struggle goes on. Lenny was super optimistic about global revolution, especially leading into sort of the october revolution. Lenin was talking about how he expected the rest of europe to rise up once the russians did and

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