PHILOS 2G03 Chapter Notes - Chapter Tutorial: Utopia, Proletariat
29 Mar 2018
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Lenin: the necessity of violent revolution to overthrow the bourgeois class. Believes that we cannot bring marx"s ideas of a utopia through gradual movement: it needs to be fast, immediate and most importantly violent. Lenin believed that we could bring about this change immediately (in russia, where he was from) without any limitations / help from other states or countries. The rival revolutionaries inhibit from creating the socialist state: instead what they are doing is consolidating capitalist powers. Notion of the state withering away": claims that the withering away of the state is going to take place in the wake of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The bourgeois creating certain concessions which might appease to the working classes to the extent in which might stop revolution. Attempts at complete social revolution will fail and we have seen that they have failed (it is too idealistic) A violent revolution may be unethical because it involves taking individuals" property away.
