Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cuck Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhilosophyCuck Thank you to Rad Shiba for help with the video and reading out quotes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnqIikIa6u1loeIQXmGVkhg As well as Xexizy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDULjo1v2Hivuu4h4LZSTUQ And Red Plateaus: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsln1E-ttrNPsMivrnf9V7w Music by musou: https://musou.bandcamp.com/track/backwater-dub Works quoted: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf Karl Marx - Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Critique_of_Hegels_Philosophy_of_Right.pdf Karl Marx - Critique of the Gotha Program - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Critque_of_the_Gotha_Programme.pdf Karl Marx - The Civil War in France - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/civil_war_france.pdf Karl Marx - Conspectus of Bakunin’s Statism and Anarchy - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1874/04/bakunin-notes.htm Friedrich Engels - A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891 - https://marxists.catbull.com/archive/marx/works/1891/06/29.htm Vladimir Lenin - State and Revolution - https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ Vladimir Lenin - Economics and Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat - https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/oct/30.htm Vladimir Lenin - Third All-Russia Congress Of Soviets Of Workers’, Soldiers’ And Peasants’ Deputies - https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/jan/10.htm Vladimir Lenin - The Tax in Kind - https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/apr/21.htm Friedrich Engels - The Principles of Communism - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm Vladimir Lenin - Eleventh Congress Of The R.C.P.(B.) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/mar/27.htm#fw01 Joseph Stalin - Foundations of Leninism - https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/index.htm Friedrich Engels - Anti-Dühring - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/ Recommended works: Karl Marx - Critique of the Gotha Program - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Critque_of_the_Gotha_Programme.pdf Vladimir Lenin - State and Revolution - https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ Simon Pirani - The Russian Revolution in Retreat - https://libcom.org/files/[Simon_Pirani]_The_Russian_Revolution_in_Retreat,_(b-ok.org).pdf Victor Serge - Memoirs of a Revolutionary - https://palmermethode.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/webpage2.pdf On the Chinese revolution of 1925: https://libcom.org/history/chinese-revolution-1925-1927 Note: In some of his later writings, Lenin does start conflating the dictatorship of the proletariat, in contradiction with Marx and his own earlier writings. There are 3 reasons why this might be: 1. As his party becomes less revolutionary, he might already be in the process of legitimating the state as socialist, which culminates in Stalin. 2. He might be less careful with his terminology due to decreasing health. 3. He is using “socialism” in a different sense, as in the socialist tendency.