ON THE ROLE OF THE STATE*.
[January-February 1917]
Communist or Social-Democrat!?
Socialism and communism. Complete commonality of consumption items or at least the necessary ones.
Democracy is also a state. Absierben**...
(Withering away) LOjC[y^[apcT;ва.
Why not Abschaffung*** and Sprengung****?
"Allmähliches Einschlafen" ***** of one function after another.
Without democracy = without management of people.
"The roots of statism in the souls of workers^ 1 ?
Opportunism and revolutionary social-democracy.
Dictatorship of the proletariat.
(Abolition of the state against the bourgeoisie.
Resistance to its attempts at restoration.
Revolutionary wars.
Introduction and defense of democracy.
Role of democracy:
Education of the masses
Transition to a new system
Form of social revolution: unions of 1905.
Imperialism: state and economic organizations of capitalists. "State-capitalist trusts".....
1870")
* Title given by Lenin. Ed.
** Withering away. Ed.
*** Abolition. Ed.
**** Blowing up. Ed.
***** Gradual falling asleep. Ed.

Democratic reforms of imperialists and social revolution.
Marx in 1844 («Nachlass», II Band, S. 50, end of the penultimate paragraph).
Nothing but a contrast between socialism and politics. Against Ruge's purely political radicalism. Until 1847!
Engels («DcH’autorita»** on revolution... (+)
on organization... (-j-)3
Marx (ebenda***) ((Neue Zeit, 32, II, 191 3—4)) on political influence and struggle for concessions.
— on revolutionary use of state power.....
Two directions in politics (politics is participation in state affairs, direction of the state, determination of forms, tasks, content of state activity), opportunistic and revolutionary, or two directions in relation to "statism"?
Democracy of reformers and democracy of revolutionaries. Two different contents: minority and mass. Calming the mass? aiding the mass struggle? Subjugation of the mass to the authority of leaders? uprising against leaders?
"Lower mass" in Engels versus "mass" behind opportunistic leaders.
Boils down to revolution versus opportunism.
* "Heritage", II volume, page... Ed.
** "On Authoritarianism". Ed.
*** ibid. Ed.
**** regarding. Ed.

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1870
BROCHURE PLANS
JULY-AUGUST 1917
I.
Marxist Doctrine on the State.
Choose a (a) historical-dogmatic or (P) logical order of exposition?
(a) Development of 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 Franco-Prussian War) 1894, (1895)
(P) The state in pre-class society...
in class society...
Entfremdung**; How does the bourgeoisie rule in a democratic republic?
Engels 1887. Engels 1894 (Ursprung)
State and revolution (and socialism).
1847 and 1848.
1852: experience of French revolutions
Experience of the Commune. ... 1871; 1872; 1873; 1875.
Transition from capitalism to socialism:
economic: Critique of the Gotha Program:
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\Аvi\e\N -
W u e - г ^ с
\ ъ V с ш \ ^  у* n\Y“ .
Karl Kautsky versus Pannekoek IV) 12. (Kautsky and worse than nil).
Experience of 1905 and 1917. Soviets...
* Civil war. Ed.
** Alienation. Ed.
*** nothing. Ed.

II.
Elw a\
I. Introduction. The state in pre-class and class society. What is the state?)
II. The modern state.
Democratic republic and stock exchange. |
| Armament and wars
III. "Withering away of the state".
The totality of this concept. |
IV. 1847 and 1848: "Theory".
V. 1852: lessons of French history and French revolutions.
VI. Experience of the Commune. ("Endlich entdeckt")**.
ad VI:
letter 12. IV. 1871.
!18 т 1 j
Preface to the Communist Manifesto 21. VI.
1872. 1873.
1875.
VII. Economics of the transitional stage from capitalism to communism.
VIII. Political transition from state to "non-state"
IX. Forgetfulness and vulgarization of Marxism. Plekhanov 1894 nil. K. Kautsky 1912 backward.
X. Experience of 1905 and 1917.
! maybe more cautiously: X. Conclusion (experience of 1905 and 1917).
* approximately. Ed.
** So-called discovery. Ed.

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1800
III.
BROCHURE PLAN:
Marxist Doctrine on the State.
(с.

Historical: Theoretical importance and relevance of the question.
1. Introduction.
Quote from Ursprung *: pre-class society without a state and class society with a state.
What is the state? (This is all that opportunists and Kautskians "know"—p. 36; 37—58
2. The modern state:
Democratic republic and stock exchange (Engels, in Urspruog)—p. .77.
armament and wars (Engels in Anti-Dühring!)
] | State trusts. State monopolies, (-j-Engels on Planlosigkeit** ...
3. "Withering away of the state". This concept, and
criticism of the "free people's state" (g Ь I i d e t/***- Engels in "Anti-Dühring!") forgotten!!
— p. 38—39.
i l l  =  general conclusions. Common knowledge. As a general concept, it does not address the question of revolution, of forms and methods of withering away, allows for an opportunistic interpretation:
|| "withering away" versus "smash" ||
Compare "withering away" and the quote from Anti-Dühring. Panegyric to violent revolution.
[Maybe]] Combine 1—3, as general Marxist theoretical views on the state? "Class society and the state" (p. 2)****
* Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. Engels]. Ed.
** lack of planning. Ed.
*** ibid. Ed.
**** see p. 22. Section a. Ed.
Lenin Collection XXI.

Specific development of the views of Marx and Engels:
4. 1847 (Poverty of Philosophy) — p. 22, and 1848 (Communist Manifesto) — p. 22—25.

a key place: "state, i.e., the organization of the ruling class of the proletariat"....
How organized?
5. 1852: Lessons of the French Revolution ("break the machine")... p. 2—3—4.
(Engels on the "classical" nature of French history: p. 4).
6. Experience of the Commune:
(a) Preface to the "Communist Manifesto" 24. VI. 1872.— p. 7.
(b) p. 8. (c). Bernstein on "doctrinaire democracy" (d) 12. IV. 1871. (Letter from Marx to Kugelmann — p. 8—2.
(e) (30. V ?) 28. V. 1871.
Civil war — p. 27—28—29—30—31.
— (1872: "Z[urj Wohnungsfrage" * p. 25: "abolition of the state". P. 25—24—25—26).
Dictatorship of the proletariat: p. 26).
* Housing Question. Ed.

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7. Distortion by Bernstein and evasive maneuvers by Kautsky ("cannot simply take over")...
8. 1873 (against anarchists; — p. 59—40—41—42.

9. 1875. Economic foundations of the transformation of the state into non-state. (Marx in Critique of the Gotha Program)— p. 15—16—17—18—19.
I* 10. 1875. Engels to Bebel). (22) —p. —(18)*
10 bis. 1891: Engels, Preface to 3rd edition— p. 52—55—54—55.
[Engels 1887: p. 23] Engels in Critique 1891 — p. 5—6—1—8.
Engels: 1894: p. 59. Chapter VI (11). [Forgetfulness] Vulgarization of Marxism by opportunists.
(a) Plekhanov in the pamphlet on anarchism —► ? 1894—nil!
(b) Kautsky 1902 ("Social Revolution") and 1909 ("Assumption of Power") very bad.
-\- Kautsky 1899 against Bernstein.
(~() Kautsky versus Pannekoek 1912 backward. — 15—44—45—16—11.
(c) "Preparation" of the revolution. Quid est ? ** (cf. Engels 1894—5, p. 10—11—12.)
| NB + 47.
[-)- 21 in an Eng[elsl and Bebel] *
| Especially NB:
"We seem more moderate than we are" Kautsky.
| p. 41
Revolutionary tradition. "Messianism)? No, taking into account 1905—1917

[-{- (* p. 20 "revolutionary mass")j (-J- special leaflet: Kautsky!: "Über Nacht"*).
Ad 8' it ch. VI. Add:
"The French will start, the German will finish": Engels: 2. VI. 1891: p. 41—42.
(Ch. VI ad 8'). Engels on the peaceful path (preface 1895): p. 11 (NB :+ p. 21).
Chapter VII (12). Experience of 1905 and 1917.
Soviets. Quid est? [cf. 1905 and 1906, resolutions of the Bolsheviks]
Same type as the Commune.
Soiled by Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks.
HB
"The French will start, the German will finish". P. 44—42. .. (cf. Spectator 1915—6).. .
Or to Chapter VII?
Transition to socialism in specific forms of transition (NB)...
Chapter VII:
1. (a) 1905. Revolutions of the Bolsheviks in 1906.
Nil in Western European literature on the state.
2. (b) 1915: Theses of "Social-Democrat".
3. (c) 1917.
— power.
Experience. — militia.
— transition to socialism.
4. (d) Attitude of Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks.
5. (e) My prediction at the Council Congress in VI. 1917.
6. (f) Experience of VII and VIII. 1917.
7. IX. 1917.
8. "Messianism"? Who will "start" ?
* Overnight. Ed.