Friday, December 4, 2015

Lenin

An ounce of struggle is worth a ton of theory.
-Vladimir Ilich Lenin

While the state exists there will be no freedom; when
freedom exists there will be no state. -V.I. Lenin

The state is the product and the manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms. When, where, and to what extent the state arises, depends directly on when, where and to what extent the class antagonisms of a given society cannot be objectively reconciled. And conversely, the existence of the state proves that the class angonisms ARE irreconcilable…According to Marx, the state can neither arise nor maintain itself if a reconciliation of classes is possible…according to Marx, the stat is the organ of class domination, the organ of oppression of one class by another. Its aim is the creation of an “order” which legalizes and perpetuates this oppression by moderating the collisions between the classes. –Lenin

If the state is the product of the irreconcilable charcter of class antagonisms, if it is a force standing above society and ‘seperating itself gradually from it’ then it is clear that the liberation of the oppressed class is impossible without a violent revolution, and without the destruction of the machinery of state power, which has been created by the governing class and in which this separation is embodied. This inference, theoretically quite self-evident, was drawn by Marx with the greatest precision from a concrete historical anylysis of the problems of revolution. -Lenin

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