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

Jun 3, 2019

01:42:08

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Alyson Escalante

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Revolutionary Realism and Scientific Socialism

01:57

The Ruling Class Contradictions and State's Role in Maintaining Power

01:56

The Historical Materialist Analysis of the State

01:55

Defending a Revolution and Breaking Apart the State

01:59

Introduction

3min

Toxed - A Review

2min

What's the Importance of This Work for Marxus?

3min

Lenon's Defending the Need for Revolution

2min

Lennon's Sense of Socialism

3min

Lennon's Exile

2min

The State Isn't a Monolith, Right?

2min

The House of the Capitalist State, Right?

3min

Lennon's View on Classdombination

4min

10.

The State Is Not a Necessity, but a Myth

2min

11.

What Are the Main Distorsions of the State by Opportunists?

2min

12.

Lennon's Distorsions About the State Withering Away

5min

13.

What's So Important Is That the State Isn't Going to Exist

2min

14.

The Proletariat and the National Liberation Struggles

3min

15.

Linen and Marks and the Comune Real Queston

2min

16.

Is Not Going to Be the First Paris Como, or the First Soviet Union, Figures It All Out?

2min

17.

Marks and Angles - The Civil War in France

3min

18.

Defending the Proletariat Is Fucking Essential, Right?

2min

19.

What Is the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, and How Does It Differ From the Bourgeois State?

2min

20.

The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

6min

21.

I Think It's a Dinner Party, Not a Revolution

3min

22.

Lennon's Optimism About the Development of the Global Revolution

2min

23.

The Proletarian Struggle Is International

3min

24.

The Imminence of Dual Power

3min

25.

Anarchism and the Guillotine

2min

26.

The Withering Away of Democracy

2min

27.

The Lower and Higher Phases of Communism

6min

28.

The Social Emerging Out of the Shell of Capitalism

2min

29.

I Think Lennon's 'Class Struggle' Is a Constant Reminder of the Transition

2min

30.

The Withering Away of the State

2min

31.

The Soviet Union and the State

2min

32.

Is Lennon's Optimism Hurting the Us?

3min

33.

Uniting the Proletariat in the US

2min

34.

I Think the D Sa Is a Problem on the Left M

3min

35.

The State and Revolution

3min

36.

Socialism in the United States

2min

37.

I'll Be Back in November at the Marke Center Conferences, to El for That Beautiful Art

2min

38.

The People's Right to Prosperity

3min

An episode done on Rev Left last year in which Alyson Escalante joins Breht to discuss Lenin's major work of political theory, State and Revolution.

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