3.12 - The State & Revolution, Chapter 5 (part 2)
Party Girls · Jamie Peck and Sam Beard
May 4, 20222h 4m
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Show Notes
<p>The ELC crew finishes out Chapter 5 of State and Rev. In this EXCITING and HOTLY DEBATED passage, Lenin lays out his plan for transitioning from capitalism to communism via a transitional phase of "lower stage communism." In this phase, you still have to go to work and earn money but now your boss is the state, albeit a state whose foundational goal is its own death-by-withering. Only once the economic basis for that withering is achieved can we ascend to "higher-stage communism" a.k.a. FULL COMMUNISM, a stateless, classless society that runs "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." Is this a good plan? What are the pros and cons? Jamie, Jorge, and Aaron discuss.</p>
<p>Chapter 5: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm">https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm</a></p>
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