Introduction by Antonio NegriPreface to First EditionPreface to Second Edition1: Class Society and the State The State: A Product of the Irreconcilability of Class AntagonismsSpecial Bodies of Armed Men, Prisons, etc.The State: An Instrument for the Exploitationof the Oppressed ClassThe 'Withering Away' of the State,and Violent Revolution2: The Experience of 1848-51The Eve of RevolutionThe Revolution Summed UpThe Presentation of the Question by Marx in 18523: Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx's AnalysisWhat Made the Communards' Attempt Heroic?What Is To Replace the Smashed State Machine?Abolition of ParliamentarismOrganization of National UnityAbolition of the Parasite State4: Supplementary Explanations by EngelsThe Housing QuestionControversy with the AnarchistsLetter to BebelCriticism of the Draft of the Erfurt ProgrammeThe 1891 Preface to Marx's The Civil War in FranceEngels on the Overcoming of Democracy5: The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the StatePresentation of the Question by MarxThe Transition from Capitalism to CommunismThe First Phase of Communist SocietyThe Higher Phase of Communist Society6: The Vulgarization of Marxism by OpportunistsPlekhanov's Controversy with the AnarchistsKautsky's Controversy with the OpportunistsKautsky's Controversy with PannekoekPostscript

Introduced by Antonio Negri, author of Empire, Multitude and Assembly,Part of a series of texts on or about Lenin on the occasion of the centenary of his death in January 2024,For readers of Etienne Balibar, Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Antonio Negri and Slavoj Zizek