![]() ![]() Many socialist organisations that had previously professed to be revolutionary, and aligned themselves to the ostensibly Marxist Second International grouping, succumbed to the nationalist hysteria sweeping Europe at the time. The short pamphlet was written in response to the turmoil that engulfed the socialist movement following the outbreak of World War One. He was referring to what later became known as The State and Revolution, one of the most important contributions to Marxist thought of the last century. So wrote Lenin with characteristic modesty in July 1917. It’s bound in a blue cover… There are a number of remarks and notes… I believe it to be important. If they do me in, I ask you to publish my notebook: Marxism on the State (it got left behind in Stockholm). ![]()
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