The State and Revolution

Main Ideas

• The necessity of dismantling the bourgeois state as an instrument of working-class oppression.
• The theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat as a transitional stage to a stateless communist society.
• Critique of parliamentary democracy as a form of bourgeois domination.
• The role of the state in class struggle and its inevitable withering away under communism.
• Analysis of Marx and Engels' teachings on the state and revolution.
• The necessity of violent revolution to overthrow the capitalist system.
• The transition from capitalism to socialism through the revolutionary transformation of society.