Lenin's most important and controversial theoretical text
Lenin's booklet State and Revolution is widely recognised to be a
lightening bolt in Marxist theory. Written in the months immediately
running up to the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin turned the
traditional socialist concept of the state on its head, arguing for the
need to smash the organs of the bourgeois state and for them to be
replace by a "semi-state" of soviets, or workers' councils, in which
ordinary people would take on the functions of the state machine
themselves in a new and radically democratic manner.
This new edition includes a substantial new introduction by renowned
theorist Antonio Negri, who argues for the continued relevance of these
ideas.
