Political Encounters by Ruairidh J. Brown

Author:Ruairidh J. Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030173401
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

4.4 Gender and Obligation in the USSR

In classical Marxist theory, the State, being but a tool of oppression, would disappear once the exploitative economic system it protected was destroyed (Marx and Engels 2002; Engels 2010). Lenin similarly called for the Bolshevik revolution to ‘smash’ and ‘break’ the oppressive State machine (Lenin 1992). Nonetheless, when the Marxist inspired revolutions did take place in the Twentieth Century, revolutionary leaders soon realised that the ‘machine of State’ was in fact a valuable, essential even, instrument for speeding the process of centralisation and industrialisation necessary for communist society and for protecting the revolutionary movement from its external and internal enemies. As Mao Zedong explained to his critics:Yes we do [want to abolish the State], but not right now; we cannot do it yet. Why? Because Imperialism still exists, because domestic reaction still exists, because classes still exist in our country. (Mao 2004)

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