After some necessary detours to learn about the Paris Commune and, um, the Gucci family, Jamie and Jorge return to State and Rev for a deep dive on Chapter 3. Drawing from the experience of the Paris Commune, Lenin explains the necessity of smashing the bourgeois state machinery and replacing it with a "dictatorship of the proletariat," a.k.a. the proletariat organized as the ruling class. What does this mean? What does it look like? Can the state really just wither away? J+J discuss.

Chapter 3:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch03.htm#s3

Viewpoint Mag article referenced by Jamie:

https://viewpointmag.com/2014/10/12/the-ends-of-the-state/

Sign up as a "fan" on here or a patron at Patreon.com/everybodylovescommunism to unlock bonus content and our Discord community, and to support the show!