State and revolution
State and revolution
State and revolution was written by Lenin in 1918 in the midst of the turbulent period of the October socialist revolution. It discusses Marx and Engels works to synthesize a Marxist theory of the state.
Read the ProleWiki article on the state, based on the Marxist understanding of it
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State and Revolution and Blackshirts and the Reds were what got me out of my anarchist phase and into actually starting to understand how things really work. They're the top two I recommend to people.