The State and revolution

Arnould versus Lenin

Authors

  • Michèle Cohen-Halimi Paris 8 University (Saint-Denis, Île de France, France)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35305/cf2.vi17.109

Keywords:

communalism, destruction of the State, withering away of the State, social and political revolution

Abstract

Tw‌o books, each of them entitled The State and Revolution, were published forty years apart from one another, with the first one written in 1877 by French Communard Arthur Arnould and the other one in 1917 by Lenin, although unaware of Arnould’s work. Their confrontation is arranged and orchestrated in an anachronical way, in conformity with the method of "plagiarism in advance," in order for us to take the full measure of Arnould's resistance to Lenin's recuperation of the Paris Commune and to grasp the unbreachable discrepancy between these two revolutionaries as well as their respective views of the State’s power and of its destruction.

References

Arnould, A. (2018). Histoire populaire et parlementaire de la Commune de Paris. Klincksieck.

Arnould, A. (1981). L'etat et la révolution. Laffont.

Harmel, C. (2005). Histoire de l’anarchie. Ivrea.

Lenin, V. (1976). L’État et la révolution. Éditions en Langue Étrangère de Pékin.

Noël, B. (1981). Arthur Arnould ou la vie d’un mort est toujours fictive. En A. Arnould, L'etat et la révolution. Laffont.

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Published

2021-09-09

How to Cite

Cohen-Halimi, M. (2021). The State and revolution: Arnould versus Lenin. Cuadernos Filosóficos / Segunda Época, (17). https://doi.org/10.35305/cf2.vi17.109

Issue

No. 17 (2020)

Section

Dossier: A 150 de la Comuna de París

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