Ленин, "Държавата и революцията": архетипи на комунистическия дискурс
Lenin, "State and Revolution": Archetypes of the Communist Discourse

Summary/Abstract: Even though Marx has founded the objective necessity of a new social arrangement, though he figured it for himself as a natural product of historical development, that social arrangement, in an essential sence, has been doctrinally created by means of a theoretical (scientific-enlightening) discourse the one of Marxism itself. Created not immediately — as a "turning" science into practice" - but through the ceaselessly remaining empty space of its unpracticability that has found a theoretical expression in the notion of the "withering away" of the state itself. Out of that empty space, as an opposition to the liberal-bourgeois state, there grow the outlines ot the new state-arrangement, seen before that by the Authors and the Founding-fathers as a transparent rational project. The factory, the post, the trade-union, these were the different views into which in 1917 Lenin recognised the outlines of the new society. The pattern he followed in "State and Revolution" was the Paris Commune — the demono-polisation of state functions and decaserna-tion of violence. Stalin's state was an exact opposite to that pattern. If (he Commune had challenged the liberal-bourgeois state-arrangement of the second half of XIX century, Stalin in a particular way has challenged this very challenging, ostensibly reproducing the principles and structures of the liberal-bourgeois state. Now perhaps, Foucault's thought that Stali-nism, as well as fascism, to a largest degree took advantage of the ideas and procedures of Western political rationality, does not seem so surprising.

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