Marx was not a "statist"

Thank you to Rad Shiba for help with the video and reading out quotes

As well as Xexizy

And Red Plateaus

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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 SocialDemocratic 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 AllRussia 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 R.C.P.(B.)

Joseph Stalin Foundations of Leninism

Friedrich Engels AntiDühring

Recommended works:

Karl Marx Critique of the Gotha Program

Vladimir Lenin State and Revolution

Simon Pirani The Russian Revolution in Retreat ]_The_Russian_Revolution_in_Retreat,_(bok.org).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.