The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin

The State and Revolution: The Marxist Doctrine of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution (Russian: Государство и революция. Учение марксизма о государстве и задачи пролетариата в революции, romanized: Gosudarstvo i revolyutsiya. Ucheniye marksizma o gosudarstve i zadachi proletariata v revolyutsii) de la gɔŋɔ ti Vladimir Lenin gulesɛ gee dikɛ dɛ́ɛlɛ peelume 1917 yuuni la puan yuum tɔgera aputi'irɛ puan pa'ala tiŋa wa yɛla la tiŋa tuuni ni de sɛla, la proletarian revolution ninmu'urɛ yɛla, dagi bala ma'a ta pa'asɛ "theoretical inadequacies of social democracy" ti ba nyage to'e revolution ta'am maalɛ "dictatorship of the proletariat" ti la wa'ana buna.

Background

Lenin yuum pɔsɛ "The State and Revolution" itegɔ la kalam sanseka ti a yuum bɔna 'exile' Switzerland tiŋa 1916 yuuni la puan la, doose tile seka ni de "Marxism on the State".

"Soviets", legislative yizuo la tumtuneba la kãareba ta pa'asɛ la tumtuneba zo'e zo'e, N yuum de ba, de facto governments of Petrograd la tinpĩgesi zo'e zo'e. Russian tiŋa duma puure yuum ka pee la Russia's tiŋa duma n kelum kɔ'ɔm dikera ba pa'asera tingɔŋɔ zãberɛ yiadaana puan la "World War I" ŋwana wa yuum basɛ kom la wumgeri yɛla zo'e paara ba. Gee Tigere ŋmareŋa kadabesa ayopɔi daare 7, ti Congress of Soviets officially yuum iŋɛ loosego nyaa yuum loe coalition of Bolsheviks, Socialist Revolutionaries la Mensheviks ti ba bisera tiŋa. Doose Red Guards, paramilitary organizations of revolutionary tumtuneba, sailors, la soldiers, the Soviet gɔmmena yuum tum la tuukãra Winter Palace gyee yuum yese Provisional Gɔmmena basɛ. Russians dwuma za'a yuum ka ntaare nuure lagum saki to'e revolution wa; nɛreba ba sɛba yuum ka saki yuum ta'asɛ ti Russian duma yuum nyɛ zãbi sɛka ti ba ye'era ti Civil War la. Yɛle deyima Lenin yuum bise za'a ŋwana suŋa suŋa de la "The State and Revolution" n yuum de ma'a tara tinmaalegɔ yɛla kina na ("the right to self-determination"); gɔŋɔ wa gulesegɔ saŋa la, ti Mensheviks of Georgia yuum tari n sɔi mɛŋa wa'ana "independence" Revolution la pooren, nyaa yuum maalɛ Democratic Republic of Georgia tiŋa.

Ti Tigere ŋmareŋa 25, 1917 yuuni la puan ti ba yuum loe Constitutional Assembly ti ba tara "majority" ti ba tuna Socialist Revolutionary Paati la tuuma, sɛla ni kɔ'ɔm dɛna ma'a sore ti ba ŋmɛrikɛ revolution yɛla pooren gee Left-SRs me nyaa pa'asa Bolshevik paati duma la puan. Yele ti deyima ti pɔsega puan ti early Soviet government yuum iŋɛ bii tum de la ba yuum saalum la constitutional convention basɛ ko'oro ŋmareŋa 20, 1918.

Synopsis

The State and Revolution de la sɛla ti ba dikɛ ti la dɛna Lenin's ninmu'urɛ tuunɛ tiŋa la puan gee ti Lucio Colletti yi'ira ti "Lenin's tuumkãtɛ ti la dɛna suŋeri bɔ'ɔra nalɛgeriba yizuo la "greatest contribution to political theory" ". Marxologist David McLellan yeti, " gɔŋɔ tile ze'ele la Lenin's yuum nyɛ nukpɛne ni la Bukharin 1916 yuuni la puan sa la yesera tiŋa wa buŋa proletarian revolution pooren la. Bukharin yuum tɔgerɛ yesera la 'withering' buba, gyee ti Lenin me puti'irɛ kɔ'ɔm bɔna la de "necessity of the state machinery to expropriate the expropriators". Hmmm, la yuum de la Lenin N yuum tee a Puti'irɛ, la puti'ira zo'e zo'e yesera "State and Revolution, a yuum iŋɛ itegɔ wa la 1917 yuuni la puan– a yuum bisɛ la tile sɛka ni de anti-statist theme – zi'an ti Bukharin bɔna la".

Lenin's yuum pa'alɛ gee me pa'alɛ tiŋa bii saŋa la vuure "State" ti la de la zi'an ti yɛla zo'e zo'e tia "the State is a special organisation of force: la de yizuo ti zãba zo'e zo'e bɔna beni dɛna avɛ'ɛ ayima basɛ gyee tole "Social class." Ti ŋwana yuum ta'asɛ ti yeleseko bɔna maalegɔ yire la puan "parliamentary democracy", ŋwana yuum ta'asɛ ti Lenin nyɛ la ti dɛna la nanananewa bureaucratic la military influences zona saazuo:

A ta'am iŋɛ la ti dɛna yuuma fii see ti a gɔmmena yizuo la nɛra bii nɛresɛba na'am puan la ti a wan ta'am tɔŋɛ gee yegeri nɛreba la ni boi wara yizuo la basɛ "parliament" – bourgeois parliamentarism vuure ni de se'em ni bala, dagi parliamentary-constitutional monarchies puan ma'a, gee ta pa'asɛ democratic republics tinsi la me.

— Vladimir Lenin, The State and the Revolution

San tɔgera Friedrich Engels la Karl Marx, Lenin biseri theoretical sokereduma yesera State proletarian revolution pooren, maala nukpɛne wa yesera anti-authoritarians, anarchists, social democrats, la reformists, pa'ala "progressive stages of societal change—the revolution, tara “the lower stage of communist society kina” (the socialist commune), ta pa'asɛ “higher stage of communist society” sɛla n tari wɔɔsa wɔɔsa tinmaalegɔ yɛla wa'ana that will yield a "stable society" gee ti nɛra woo bɔna faai.

Lenin yuum boi la Marx's theory of communism, la Marxism generally pooren; ti la bɔna, ta paɛ sansɛka ti revolutionaries kɛgesi la ta ki, gee bourgeoisie dagi sɛba ti fum wan yeti ba denduma bɔ'ɔra tiŋa la “enemies of the state”, se'ere sɔi la la wan tari daaŋɔ zo'e zo'e wa'am nalɛka puan la nɛrisɛba ni ka ni na"amlɛka, bala zuo ti ba dikɛ revolutionaries’ theoretic gulesegɔ yɛla pa'ala ti (anti-revolutionary) social-democratic mediocrity contrary to ti ba bɔna ba yiŋa la “the revolutionary nature of Marx”; magese wuu bourgeois intellectuals de la “revisionists” se'em n maan maalɛ nɛrisaala ti a tee dɛna abstraction:

Great revolutionaries duma vom saŋa, nɛresɛba ni daane ba la kɔ'ɔm daana ba saŋa woo to'osera ba yɛla la ba putibe'oro "savage malice, yaari yaase'ere tɔ̃i papa, la nalɛgeri se'ere N ka doose ma'a gyee tun kɔ'ɔm dɛna pumpurinkãra ma'a la yele yooro. Ba kum pooren, bani bisera ba wan iŋɛ se'em ti ba lebe yelesi'a n ka tari daaŋɔ, ti ba canonize them, ŋwana tu wan yeti, tu teesum ba yu'ura, sɔsega seka puan, ni de ‘consolation’ nɛrisɛba ti ba mɛlissɛ la, gee ti ba ta'am tee gɔŋɔ la, gee ti Sakana nuu, maan maalekira revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge, la vulgarizing la. Zina, bourgeoisie la opportunists, tuuma zi'an la puan labour movement iti doctoring of Marxism wa puan nuu. Ba yese "omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. Ba push to the foreground la extol yese ba dɛnɛ n se'em, seems, acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now ‘Marxists’ (don’t laugh!). And more and more frequently, German bourgeois scholars, only yesterday specialists in the annihilation of Marxism, are speaking of the ‘national-German’ Marx, who, they claim, educated the labour unions, which are so splendidly organised for the purpose of waging a predatory war

Edition-in English

• Lenin, Vladimir. State and Revolution. Aziloth Books, London. 2017. ISBN 978-1614271925
• ibid, ed. Robert Service, State and Revolution. Penguin Books, London. 1992. ISBN 978-0140184358
• ed. Christman, Henry M. Essential Works of Lenin: What is to be Done and other Writings. Bantam Books, New York, 1966. ISBN 9780486253336.