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Friedrich Engels and the Foundations of Socialist Governance

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Philosophy Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-4695-9

ISBN: 978-981-16-4694-2

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Oct 9, 2021

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Introduction and Synopsis

Boer, Roland

Pages: 1 –8

[The introductory chapter sets the scene by identifying the reason why this study has been undertaken and how I do so. As to why, it constitutes a search for understanding the nature of socialist governance today, especially in China. As to how, I return to the foundational texts of the Marxist...
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The State as a Separated Public Power

Boer, Roland

Pages: 9 –24

[This chapter concernsSeparated public powerstate as Engels’s programmaticStateas separated public power observations on hitherto existing formsStatehitherto existing forms of the state as aSeparated public powerstate as ‘separated public powerStateas separated public power’. I dwell on Engels’s...
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Socialist Gewalt and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Boer, Roland

Pages: 25 –50

[This chapter deals withProletariat, dictatorship ofsocialist gewalt proletarian Gewalt, which Engels sees as necessary in both the revolutionary process and in the early stages of socialist construction. The concrete manifestation of this socialist GewaltGewaltsocialist Gewalt is the...
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Abolition or Dying Away of the State?

Boer, Roland

Pages: 51 –89

[Given the many misunderstandings concerningDelayin dying/withering away of the state the ‘dying awayStatedying away’ of the state, this is the longest chapter. I begin by analysing debates among German socialists in the 1840s, finding that they did not urge the state’s abolition...
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Towards Enmeshed Socialist Governance

Boer, Roland

Pages: 91 –112

[What forms of governance would emerge gradually during socialist construction? The answer has two parts. To begin with, public GewaltGewaltpublic Gewalt loses its political character and becomes the administration of thingsAdministration (of things) and conduct of forces and relations...
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Conclusion: What is in a Name?

Boer, Roland

Pages: 113 –117

[The concluding observations address three questions. The first concerns the nature of the actual experience of socialist governance in many parts of the world and the rich theoretical developments in light of such experience. I have not addressed these at any length, since that would be another...

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