The State and Revolution

Summary

The book «The State and Revolution» by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is dedicated to analyzing the role of the state in society and its transformation under revolutionary conditions. Lenin views the state as an instrument of class domination that must be dismantled to transition to a socialist society. He draws on the works of Marx and Engels to justify the necessity of the dictatorship of the proletariat as a transitional form of power. Lenin criticizes reformism and emphasizes the inevitability of the violent overthrow of the bourgeois state. The book also discusses issues of democracy, self-governance, and the role of the party in the revolutionary process. Lenin's main thesis is that only through revolution and the destruction of the old state apparatus can a new society based on equality and justice be built.