To Smash or be Smashed? Lenin’s Theory of the State
March 15, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In Chapter Two of State and Revolution, Lenin discusses the lessons of the European revolutionary movement of 1848-51
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US Drug “War” Destroys Rain Forests
March 4, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It seems that the drug war in Mexico has driven the drug gangs deep into the remotest areas of the jungles of Central America
Lenin on the “Withering Away” of the State and Violent Revolution
February 25, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Lenin discusses these two topics in section four of chapter one of The State and Revolution (1917)
Bum Rap for the Rapa Nui
February 14, 2014 3:33 pm Leave your thoughts
A new report details a re-evaluation of the view that the native inhabitants of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) were responsible for the collapse of their population
Lenin’s State and Revolution: Chapter One Parts 2&3
February 6, 2014 2:34 am Leave your thoughts Still basing himself on Engels' work, Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Lenin points out that the State is the first form of society exclusively to base itself on a given territory
State and Revolution: Chapter One: Class Society and the State
January 24, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Thomas Riggins explains how, according to Lenin, the State is a product of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms
The Philosophical Idealists as Comrades in Arms and Successors of Empirio-Criticism
January 20, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Thomas Riggins walks us through Chapter 4 of Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-Criticism
Lenin’s State and Revolution Today- The Preface
January 16, 2014 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The first in a series of articles by Thomas Riggins analysing Lenin's famous work The State and Revolution: The Marxist theory of the State and the tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution
Waiting for Mangabe or Slavoj Zizek on Mandela’s Socialist Failure
December 22, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
This is a reply to Slavoj Zizek's article "Mandela's Socialist Failure" published online in The Stone (a New York Times maintained philosophy blog) on December 6, 2013
Lenin on Freedom and Necessity
December 15, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Thomas Riggins Analyses The Next Two Parts Of Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-criticism