Lenin and the State

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🗓️ 23 September 2024

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 149 Vladimir Lenin established the Bolshevik Party in 1912 to seize control of the socialist movement in Russia and to plan and execute a violent revolution against the Tsar, and by 1917 he was successful in this attack. Also in 1917, on the eve of his victory, he wrote his thoughts about the organization of the state and how the revolution should proceed, both to box out his socialist competitors and to establish a theoretical baseline drawing from Marx and Engels for how to organize what became the Soviet Union. That document bears the title The State and Revolution, and in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay reads through the first chapter of Lenin's key work to expose to you what Bolshevik Communists think a state exists to do: repression. Join him to learn how history today is rhyming with Lenin's evil. New book! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2024 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Lenin

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0:00.0	The Hey there everyone it's James Lindsay and you were listening to another episode of
0:23.9	the new Discourses podcast and we're exploring Lenin in fact we're going to
0:28.6	continue we started in chapter five rather than doing this in order.
0:32.7	We're going to continue our reading of Vladimir Lenin's
0:36.5	The State and Revolution, which he wrote and published in 1917,
0:42.0	which is the same year that he successfully led the Bolshevik Revolution against Russia a few months later.
0:50.0	And obviously the title of this book, The State and Revolution, tells you what the book is about.
0:57.4	It's about the State. What is a State? What is a State for? What does it do?
1:03.0	How does it work?
1:04.2	And then revolution, which is of course the objective of the communist
1:08.1	entering into the society that's governed by the state.
1:11.7	Chapter 1 of this book is titled The State. So it's about
1:16.7	the State. It's in fact titled fully The State, a product of the
1:21.1	irreconcilability of class antagonisms.
1:24.0	So this book was written largely kind of as a notebook, mostly to himself.
1:31.0	He wasn't sure, from what I can tell tell having read about it if he was going to
1:34.7	publish it or not it was a notebook where he was working out his thoughts on various
1:40.4	comments of angles primarily Friedrich Engels and to a degree
1:45.4	Marx but I mean it's all about Marx you're gonna hear Marx Marx Marx Marx Marx
1:50.3	Marx is in the first sentence it's we're to hear a lot of Marks, but he quotes
1:54.2	Angles a great deal.
1:56.0	And I think that's because Angles is much more clear on what he thinks about how a state
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