The State and Revolution (Vladimir Lenin)

*The State and Revolution* by Vladimir Lenin analyzes how governments and societies change. Lenin argues that the state is a tool used by ruling classes to maintain power and oppress others. He advocates for a revolutionary overthrow of capitalist states, replacing them with a dictatorship of the proletariat—workers' rule—that eventually leads to a stateless, communist society. Lenin emphasizes that true socialism requires active dismantling of existing state structures through revolution, rather than reform. The book clarifies the role of the state in class struggle and aims to guide working-class movements toward revolutionary change.