V: The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State by Dic Proles published on 2020-03-17T18:40:08Z In this chapter, Lenin discusses the necessary, discrete phases of society taking us from capitalism to communism (that is Capitalism, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat [Dic Prole], Socialism, Communism). He also further leans into the idea that the State must gradually wither away as opposed to being abolished "over night". Full text: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm Genre Audiobooks