Just to be clear, are you saying that you thought “State and Revolution” was a slogan like “Blood and Soil” or “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”? That would be a very unusual reaction but I’m not asking as a point of judgement.
Anyway, it’s Lenin’s most famous work and you can find it for free very easily online including as text here and as an audiobook here.
it’s generally a good idea to Google something you suspect is a slogan as it’s frequently some fascist BS. that would have pulled up the work for free from a number of places. I assumed you had done that and were calling Lenin a nationalist.
I respect you admitting as much but I also whole-heartedly recommend that you give the book a read, or even Stalin’s book ‘Dialectical and Historical Materialism’ if you’re looking for something shorter… I was very much like you once and reading books like these helped me understand a lot of things.
Just to be clear, are you saying that you thought “State and Revolution” was a slogan like “Blood and Soil” or “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”? That would be a very unusual reaction but I’m not asking as a point of judgement.
Anyway, it’s Lenin’s most famous work and you can find it for free very easily online including as text here and as an audiobook here.
Personally, I think the best introductory work for someone who doesn’t have the patience for The Principles of Communism (and I don’t have that patience myself) is Engels’ Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, here as text and here as an excellent audiobook.
Let me know if there’s anything that I can do to help.
Yes, that’s what I thought lol. In my defense, posting in here led to my inbox blowing up so I didn’t spend much time thinking about it.
No worries. It’s no coincidence that your education system, like mine, probably didn’t inform you about those sorts of things.
it’s generally a good idea to Google something you suspect is a slogan as it’s frequently some fascist BS. that would have pulled up the work for free from a number of places. I assumed you had done that and were calling Lenin a nationalist.
I respect you admitting as much but I also whole-heartedly recommend that you give the book a read, or even Stalin’s book ‘Dialectical and Historical Materialism’ if you’re looking for something shorter… I was very much like you once and reading books like these helped me understand a lot of things.