#althusser

Readings on the Marxist doctrine of the State:

The Civil War in France by Karl Marx (1871)

The Critique of the Gotha Programme by Karl Marx (1875)

On Authority by Frederick Engels (1872)

Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Frederick engels (1884)

The State and Revolution by Valdimir Lenin (1918)

The State by Vladimir Lenin (1919)

The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky by Vladimir Lenin (1918)

“Democracy” and Dictatorship by Vladimir Lenin (1919)

Communist International Theses on Bourgeois Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat(1919)

Terrorism and Communism by Leon Trotsky (1920)

Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Louis Althusser (1970)

“Those who recognize only the class struggle are not yet Marxists; they may be found to be still within the bounds of bourgeois thinking and bourgeois politics. To confine Marxism to the theory of the class struggle means curtailing Marxism, distorting it, reducing it to something acceptable to the bourgeoisie. Only he is a Marxist who extends the recognition of the class struggle to the recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat.”
Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution, 1918