Lenin on democratic theory

Artemy Magun

pp. 141-152

Lenin's State and Revolution is not only a project for imminent revolutionary policy and not only a legitimization argument for a revolutionary dictatorship, but also a theory of state and theory of democracy. Lenin points at the reduplication of state organs that is inherent in a democratic state. While the Russian revolutionary thinks of this reduplication as something transitory, we today increasingly see it as a durable condition coterminous with the late-modern democratic state. I use Lenin's treatise as a point of inspiration to briefly characterize my dialectical theory of state.

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DOI: 10.1007/s11212-018-9309-1

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Magun, A. (2018). Lenin on democratic theory. Studies in East European Thought 70 (2-3), pp. 141-152.

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