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Work #785 · Late

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin
1917 (composed in Finland, on the eve of the October Revolution) · Russian
Marxist political pamphlet · Marxism-Leninism / revolutionary political theory

Lenin's 1917 pamphlet on the Marxist theory of the state and the dictatorship of the proletariat

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Attribute The State and Revolution (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency None
Observer · Moral Authority Constructed
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

The State and Revolution

The revolutionary time of October 1917.

Space

The State and Revolution

The state as concentrated class power.

Matter

The State and Revolution

The embodied proletariat.

Observer

The State and Revolution

The revolutionary cadre.

Energy

The State and Revolution

Energies of revolutionary transformation.

Information

The State and Revolution

The Marxist theoretical reconstruction.

Internal Tensions

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The State and Revolution

Lenin's State and Revolution: foundational for twentieth-century revolutionary Marxism; one of the most influential political pamphlets of the modern era.