The State and Revolution

Methodology and Conclusions

In «The State and Revolution», Lenin employs a Marxist methodology, analyzing the historical development of the state and its role in class struggle. He examines the works of Marx and Engels to justify the necessity of dismantling the bourgeois state and establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat as a transitional stage to a classless society. Lenin concludes that the state is an instrument of one class oppressing another and that only revolution can lead to its destruction. He emphasizes that the proletariat must dismantle the old state machinery and replace it with a new one based on the principles of Soviet power to ensure the transition to socialism.