The State and Revolution: Bureaucracy, the vanguard, blah blah blah

  1. Lanky Wanker
    Lanky Wanker
    Abolishing the bureaucracy at once, everywhere and completely, is out of the question. It is a utopia. But to smash the old bureaucratic machine at once and to begin immediately to construct a new one that will make possible the gradual abolition of all bureaucracy--this is not a utopia, it is the experience of the Commune, the direct and immediate task of the revolutionary proletariat.
    Before I ask anything else (there's more, don't worry), is this new bureaucratic machine supposed to be the vanguard party?
  2. TheGodlessUtopian
    TheGodlessUtopian
    No, the concept of a vanguard party and the proletarian dictatorship are two different ideas. Where did you get that quote from? What chapter and section?