• thelasthoxhaist [he/him]
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    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    Just Finished reading"State and Revolution" :lenin-cat:

    what a great book, you can feel the anger of Lenin towards Kautsky and his opportunism, it really reads like a callout post especially in the last chapter.

    Kautsky sold out his ideology for electoralism and end up just wanting a "government... willing to meet the proletariat half-way" and he was willing to compromise with the social democrats, how he just ignores the question of what to do with the Bourgeois State after the revolution, and that he just claimed any marxist criticism of him as anarchism to dismiss it.

    i like how in the end Lenin said Kautsky can keep his bourgeois socdem Germany, while he is going to establish an actual worker's state in Russia and he does that in like 4 months after the book

    i like it, big fan