The State and Revolution

The following study guide was originally published by The Marxist-Leninist news blog:

“The state is a weapon of class struggle, a machine by which one class represses another. Every state is the dictatorship of a definite class. So long as the state exists, it cannot possibly stand above class or belong to the whole people.” – Mao Zedong, “The Proletarian Revolution and Krushchev’s Revisionism”

Beggining and Essential readings

• The State by V. I. Lenin
• The Dual Power by V. I. Lenin
• The Proletarian Revolution and Krushchev’s Revisionism by Mao Zedong

Supplementary readings

• The Civil War in France by Karl Marx
• Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Frederick Engels
• On Authority by Frederick Engels
• The State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin
• “Democracy” and Dictatorship by V. I. Lenin
• Bourgeois and Proletarian Democracy by V. I. Lenin
• The Vulgar Bourgeois Representation of Dictatorship and Marx’s View of It by V.I. Lenin
• Marxism and Reformism by V. I. Lenin
• Should We Participate in Bourgeois Parliaments? by V. I. Lenin
• Theses on the Dictatorship of the Proletariat by V. I. Lenin
• Tactical Foundations of the Marxist Party from the History of the CPSU – Short Course
• Organize Mass Criticism from Below by J. V. Stalin
• Strategy and Tactics by J. V. Stalin
• The Dictatorship of the Proletariat by J. V. Stalin
• People’s Democracy in China by J. V. Stalin
• On the Bolshevik suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion video presentation from the Revolutionary Students Union
• On Protracted War by Mao Zedong
• Problems of Strategy in Guerilla War Against Japan by Mao Zedong
• On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship by Mao Zedong
• The Party’s Mass Line Must Be Followed in Supressing Counter-Revolutionaries by Mao Zedong
• On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People by Mao Zedong
• Socialism Is the Class Dictatorship of the Proletariat by Po Ching
• Continue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the End by Hua Guofeng
• Continuing the Revolution is Not a Dinner Party: Looking back at Tiananmen Square, the defeat of counter-revolution in China by Mick Kelly of FRSO
• People’s War, People’s Army by Vo Nguyen Giap
• Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Louis Althusser
• Bourgeois Democracy and Fascism by Harpal Brar