Publisher's Synopsis
Written in the heat of the Russian Revolution, this is a key work of Marxism. Here, Lenin explains that, stripped of all non-essentials, the state is in the final analysis "groups of armed men": the army and the police, in defence of the ruling class. Today, after years of attacks, we see the working class and youth attempting to shake off capitalist oppression in all corners of the world, thus inevitably colliding with the state.
