Marx was not a “statist“

Patreon: Twitter: Thank you to Rad Shiba for help with the video and reading out quotes: As well as Xexizy: And Red Plateaus: Music by musou: Works quoted: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx - Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right - Karl Marx - Critique of the Gotha Program - Karl Marx - The Civil War in France - Karl Marx - Conspectus of Bakunin’s Statism and Anarchy - Friedrich Engels - A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891 - Vladimir Lenin - State and Revolution - Vladimir Lenin - Economics and Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat - Vladimir Lenin - Third All-Russia Congress Of Soviets Of Workers’, Soldiers’ And Peasants’ Deputies - Vladimir Lenin - The Tax in Kind - Friedrich Engels - The Principles of Communism - Vladimir Lenin - Eleventh Congress Of The .(B.) - #fw01 Joseph Stalin - Foundations of Leninism - Friedrich Engels - Anti-Dühring - Recommended works: Karl Marx - Critique of the Gotha Program - Vladimir Lenin - State and Revolution - Simon Pirani - The Russian Revolution in Retreat - [Simon_Pirani]_The_Russian_Revolution_in_Retreat,_().pdf Victor Serge - Memoirs of a Revolutionary - On the Chinese revolution of 1925: Note: In some of his later writings, Lenin does start conflating the dictatorship of the proletariat, in contradiction with Marx and his own earlier writings. There are 3 reasons why this might be: 1. As his party becomes less revolutionary, he might already be in the process of legitimating the state as socialist, which culminates in Stalin. 2. He might be less careful with his terminology due to decreasing health. 3. He is using “socialism” in a different sense, as in the socialist tendency.
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