# ON THE QUESTION OF THE ROLE OF THE STATE*.
[January-February 1917]
Communist or Social-Democrat!?
Socialism and communism. Complete commonality of items of consumption or at least those necessary.
Democracy is also a state. Absierben**...
(Withering away) of the state.
Why not Abschaffung*** and not Sprengung****?
«Allmähliches Einschlafen» ***** of one function after another.
Without democracy = without governing people.
"The roots of statehood in the souls of workers?"
Opportunism and revolutionary social democracy.
Dictatorship of the proletariat.
(Using the state against the bourgeoisie.
Repulse of its attempts at restoration.
Revolutionary wars.
Introduction and defense of democracy.
The role of democracy:
Education of the masses
Transitioning them to a new system
Form of social revolution: unions of 1905.
Imperialism: the state and economic organizations of capitalists. "State-capitalist trusts".....
1870)
* Title given by Lenin. Ed.
** withering away. Ed.
*** annihilation. Ed.
**** explosion. Ed.
***** gradual falling asleep. Ed.

LENIN MISCELLANIES
Democratic reforms of the imperialists and the social revolution.
Marx in 1844 ("Nachlass", II Band, S. 50, end of the penultimate paragraph).
Nothing but the opposition of socialism to politics.
Against the purely political radicalism of Ruge. Until 1847!
Engels ("Dell'autorità" about revolution... (+)
about organization... (-j-)3
Marx (ebenda*** (Neue Zeit, 32, II, 1913—4)) on political influence and the struggle for concessions.
— on the revolutionary use of state power.....
Two trends in politics (politics is participation in the affairs of the state, the direction of the state, the determination of the forms, tasks, content of the state's activities), opportunistic and revolutionary,
or two trends in relation to "statehood"?
Democracy of reformists and democracy of revolutionaries. Two different contents: minority and mass. Pacification of the mass? promotion of the struggle of the mass? Subordination of the mass to the authority of the leaders? rebellion against the leaders?
"Lower mass" in Engels versus "mass" behind opportunistic leaders.
It boils down to revolution versus opportunism.
* "Legacy", Volume II, page... Ed.
** "On Authority". Ed.
*** ibid. Ed.
**** Relation to. Ed.

PLANS FOR A PAMPHLET

1870
PLANS FOR A PAMPHLET
JULY - AUGUST 1917
I.
The Marxist doctrine of the state.
Should a historical-dogmatic (a) order of presentation or a logical one (P) be chosen?
(a) Development of the views (chronological) of Marx and Engels. 1847, 1848, 1852, 12. IV. 1871, 1872, 1873, 1875, 1878 (Anti-Dühring), 1891 (Critique of the Erfurt Program), (1891: preface to the War of the Franco-Prussian War) 1894, (1895)
(P) The state in a pre-class society ...
in a class society...
Entfremdung**; How does the bourgeoisie dominate in a democratic republic?
Engels 1887. Engels 1894 (Ursprung)
The state and revolution (and socialism).
1847 and 1848.
1852: the experience of the French revolutions.
The experience of the Commune. 1871; 1872; 1873; 1875.
Transition from capitalism to socialism:
economic: Critique of the Gotha Program.
2 Phases of communist society.
Karl Kautsky versus Martov IV) 12. (Kautsky хуже чем nil).
The experience of 1905 and 1917. Soviets...
* Civil War. Ed.
** Alienation. Ed.
*** nothing. Ed.