[lbo-talk] anarchism & the state (was: When is private property ...)

[Richard Harris]

"The Marxist tradition is that we must first conquer the state and use
it to defend the revolution ..." 

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As far as I'm aware, Marx only ever referred to smashing the state, never to 
the setting up of a 'workers' state' - see The Civil War in France and 
Critical Notes on the Article "The King of Prussia and Social Reform. By a 
Prussian" 

These were written years apart but offer the same account of the state. 

As far as I know, Lenin popularised the notion of a workers' state in State 
and Revolution.  In my view, in so doing he shows us that he never escaped 
from the influence of the Pope of Marxism, Kautsky, whose goal was a 
workers' state. 

Am I wrong? 

Richard
Canterbury, Kent.