The State and Revolution — Can Power Abolish Itself?
Can an institution built to enforce domination become the instrument that ends it?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin as an entry point, this episode investigates the state as a structure of class power rather than a neutral authority standing above society.
Lenin argues that the capitalist state cannot simply be captured and reformed. Its bureaucratic and military machinery must be dismantled and replaced by a transitional dictatorship of the proletariat. That new order would suppress the former…
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