'The State and Revolution' By Vladimir Lenin | Political Education Session #5

A political education session hosted on October 2, 2020 by ANTICONQUISTA Co-Editor Ramiro Fúnez and Kayla Pop. Kayla is a Peruvian-Haitian student and worker based in New York City and a regular contributor to ANTICONQUISTA. In this session, we discuss “The State and Revolution” by Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. “The State and Revolution” was published in 1917, the same year the Bolsheviks took power in Russia. In his book, Lenin explains the Marxist theory of the state and the tasks of the working class in the revolution. Lenin also discusses the role of the state in society and the theoretical inadequacies of social democracy and anarchism in achieving revolution. This podcast features tunes by the musical genius Mama Sissoko.