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C O N T E N T S


   [Part I]
 

Introduction to the English Edition by
Grahame Lock
 


7
 

   [Part II]
 

Forward

34

I.

Paris (1976) - Moscow (1936)

38

'Dictatorship or Democracy'
Three Simple and False Ideas
A Precedent : 1936

38
42
49

II.
 

Lenin's Three Theoretical Arguments
about the Dictatorship of the Proletariat


58

III.

What is State Power?

64

Marxism and Bourgeois Legal Ideology
Has the Proletariat Disappeared?

66
77

IV.

The Destruction of ther State Apparatus

88

The Opportunist Deviation
The Organization of Class Rule
What Has to be Destroyed?
The Main Aspect of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

88
93
99
111

V.

Socialism and Communism

124

The Historical Tendency to the Dictatorship of the
  Proletariat
What is Socialism
The Real 'Problems of Leninism'


133
139
146

A Few Words in Conclusion
 

154
 

  [Part III]


Dossier - Extracts from the Pre-Congress Debate
and the Proceedings of the 22nd Congress of the
French Communist Party (January - February 1976)


 
 
157


Georges Haddah  On the Question of the Dictatorship of
the Proletariat

Georges Marchais  Liberty and Socialism

Georges Marchais  Ten Questions, Ten Answers to
Convince the Listener

Etienne Balibar  On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Guy Besse  On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
(Reply to Etienne Balibar )

Georges Marchais  In Order to Take Democracy Forward
to Socialism, Two Questions are Decisive


159

161

 
165

168

 
175

 
182

Louis Althussier : The Historic Significance
of the 22nd Congress


193

Etienne Balibar : Postscript to the
English Edition


212

Index [Not available]

235




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