A leftist history and theory podcast wherein Jamie Peck (The Antifada, The Majority Report), Aaron Thorpe (Trillbilly Workers Party) and Jorge Rocha (DSA) do the reading so you don't have to!
https://fans.fm/everybodylovescommunism
Ep 3.1 - The State and Revolution, Chapter One
Jamie and Aaron begin their discussion of Vladimir Lenin’s 1917 book The State and Revolution with “Chapter I: Class Society and the State.” What is the Marxist conception of the state? How does the bourgeois state oppress the working class, and how can the proletariat seize power? And what does it mean for the state to “wither away”? After historical context and summarizing “Chapter I,” the crew interrogates Lenin’s ideas, how they have borne out over time, and apply them to the modern-day United States.
The State and Revolution:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
Editing by Moses Archuleta
Intro/outro: Everybody Hates Chris theme song
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