These leaders insisted that Marx and Engels believed that in order to reach communism, the state would be extinguished along with the social classes and that it could not be “abolished” as a result of an arbitrary decision. This was a central point and had been sown with all kinds of confusion and distortions by the most important theoreticians of German social democracy, such as Karl Kautsky. Lenin, who was in hiding at the time, devoted himself during those decisive moments to clarifying the Marxist conception of the state. The chapter referring to the Russian revolutions of 19 and what happened from February to August of that year could not be written. Owing to the historical events, the work remained unfinished. The text we are presenting was written by Lenin in August–September 1917, shortly before the revolutionary crisis that led to the conquest of power by the Bolsheviks in Russia and the establishment of the first proletarian state in history. The cover of the new Spanish-language edition of The State and Revolution from Ediciones IPS.
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