[BEST OF] State and Revolution: Marx, Lenin, & the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 2 April 2022

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[Orignally released Oct 2018]

Alyson Escalante joins Breht to discuss Lenin's major work of political theory, State and Revolution.

Here is a previous show we here at Rev Left did specifically on the Paris Commune entitled "The Paris Commune: A Brief Blossoming of Proletarian Power", for anyone interested in taking a deeper dive: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/the-paris-commune-a-brief-blossoming-of-proletarian-power

Outro: "Police State" by Dead Prez

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0:00.0	You have the inverteence in human society of this thing that's called the state.
0:07.0	What is the state?
0:09.0	The state is this organized bureaucracy.
0:12.0	It is the police department.
0:14.0	It is the army that they be.
0:16.0	It is the prison system that courts and what have you.
0:19.0	This is the state and it is a repressive organization.
0:24.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.
0:28.0	I'm your host Ann Comrade, Red O'Shea.
0:30.0	And today we have on Allison Escalante from our previous Gender Abolition, Michelle Foucault
0:35.0	and Marxism Lennon is an episode to tackle state and revolution.
0:39.0	The monumental work of political theory written by Lennon in 1917 right before the October Revolution.
0:46.0	This is an incredibly important text and I think a good, interesting, formative conversation
0:52.0	between Allison and I on the topic.
0:54.0	We also take it and apply it to today and how this book is relevant for us today, etc.
0:59.0	So I really think people will enjoy this conversation.
1:01.0	I had a hell of a time researching it and actually recording it.
1:05.0	Allison is a friend of mine, a really principled comrade and so it's always fun to have these discussions with her
1:11.0	and sort of work through these ideas.
1:13.0	So yeah, I hope you really enjoy it before we go into the episode though.
1:16.0	I do want to mention the fact that Rev Left Radio is looking for a new logo.
1:20.0	I think it's kind of time to move on a little bit. The logo we had was sort of thrown together last minute
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