The State & Revolution

This foundational political work by Vladimir Lenin examines the true nature of the state and its role as an instrument of class power rather than a neutral force serving all people equally. Challenging comforting ideas about government, law, and democracy, it argues that the state exists primarily to protect the interests of the ruling class and to suppress those beneath it. What appears as order and stability is revealed as controlled force shaped by economic domination.

Lenin traces how re...