ESTADO E REVOLUÇÃO

In a world dominated by belligerent imperialism at its peak, when the nationalist convulsions of the Western powers ended up subjugating even the International, State and Revolution once again addresses the issue of Marxist theory of the State by reiterating the impossibility of a gradual and uninterrupted transition from bourgeois democracy to socialism. If, in general, universal suffrage was not capable of affecting the substance of the class contradictions inherent in capitalist society, in such a historical phase, according to Lenin, the way out of the barbarism responsible for leading humanity to collapse had to be sought even more decisively in new forms of popular participation, more direct and less mediated. In this writing, considered Lenin's last theoretical work, the Russian revolutionary poses the problem of overcoming the delegated representative forms of political functions, at the time organically co-opted in defense of the monopolistic interests of the respective national capitalisms.