State and Revolution

Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition I.Class Society and the State 1.The State: A Product of the Irreconcilability of Class Antagonisms 2.Special Bodies of Armed Men, Prisons, etc. 3.The State: An Instrument for the Exploitation of the Oppressed Class 4.The "Withering Away" of the State, and Violent Revolution II.The Experience of 1848-51 1.The Eve of Revolution 2.The Revolution Summed Up 3.The Presentation of the Question by Marx in 1852 III.Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx's Analysis 1.What Made the Communards' Attempt Heroic? 2.What is to Replace the Smashed State Machine? 3.Abolition of Parliamentarism 4.Organisation of National Unity 5.Aboloition of the Parasite State IV.Supplementary Explanations by Engels 1.The Housing Question 2.Controversy with the Anarchists 3.Letter to Bebel 4.Criticism of the Draft of the Erfurt Programme 5.The 1891 Preface to Marx's "The Civil War in France" 6.Engels on the Overcoming of Democracy V.The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State 1.Formulation of the Question by Marx 2.The Transition from Captialism to Communism 3.The First Phase of Communist Society 4.The Higher Phase of Communist Society VI.The Vulgarisation of Marxism by Opportunists 1.Plekhanov's Controversy with the Anarchists 2.Kautsky's Controversy with the Opportunists 3.Kautsky's Controversy with Pannekoek Postscript to the First Edition Explanatory Notes