The State and Revolution

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter I. Class Society and the State
1. The State as the Product of the Irreconcilability of Class
Antagonisms
2. Special Bodies of Armed Men, Prisons, etc.
3. The State as an Instrument for the Exploitation of the
Oppressed Class
4. The “Withering Away” of the State and Violent
Revolution
Chapter II. The State and Revolution.
 The Experience of 1848-51
1. The Eve of the Revolution
2. The Revolution Summed Up
3. The Presentation of the Question by Marx in 1852
Chapter III. The State and Revolution.
 Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871.
 Marx’s Analysis
1. Wherein Lay the Heroism of the Communards’ Attempt?
2. With What Is the Smashed State Machine to Be Replaced
3. Abolition of Parliamentarism
4. Organization of the Unity of the Nation
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5. Abolition of the Parasite State
Chapter IV. Continuation.
 Supplementary Explanations by Engels
1. The Housing Question
2. Controversy with the Anarchists
3. Letter to Bebel
4. Criticisms of the Draft of the Erfurt Program
5. The 1891 Preface to the Civil War in France
6. Engels on the Overcoming of Democracy
Chapter V. Economic Basis of the Withering Away of
 the State
1. Presentation of the Question by Marx
2. The Transition from Capitalism to Communism
3. The First Phase of Communist Society
4. The Highest Phase of Communist Society
Chapter VI. The Vulgarization of Marxism by the
 Opportunists
1. Plekhonov’s Controversy with the Anarchists
2. Kautsky’s Controversy with the Opportunists
3. Kautsky’s Controversy with Pannekoek
Postscript to the First Edition