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It was here that Lenin justified his personal interpretation of Marxism, savaged his opponents and set out his trenchant views on class conflict, the lessons of earlier revolutions, the dismantling of the bourgeois state and the replacement of capitalism by the dictatorship of the proletariat. As both historical document and political statement, its importance can hardly be exaggerated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated and edited with an introduction by Robert Service\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1 Class society and the state: the state as the product of the irreconcilability of class contradictions; special bodies of armed men, prisons, etc.; the state as an instrument for the exploitation of the oppressed class; the \"withering away\" of the state and violent revolution. 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It is a human story of significant consequence for our politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and credits\t5 PICTURE CREDITS\t15 FIGURE CREDITS\t16 PREFACE\t17 INTRODUCTION\t The Long View\t24 A Homogeneous Country\t26 Decline of Class\t27 Voting Against your Class\t27 Middle Class Takeover\t28 Parliamentary Dominance\t29 Bureaucracy no Longer in Control\t30 Labour’s Approach to Capitalism\t30 Internal Revolts\t32 Credibility and Authority \t33 CHAPTER 1\t MANCHESTER IN THE HIGH NOON OF BUTSKELLISM\t36 My family and Other Workers\t37 The Quakers\t38 No Social Contact\t39 Not Noticing\t40 Newton Heath\t42 Across the Mersey\t43 Accelerating Decline\t44 The Fading of the Working Class \t46 The Politics of Croslandism\t48 Profumo\t51 The Real Manchester\t52 Escaping from the Narrow World\t54 CHAPTER 2\t GLAD CONFIDENT MORNING AND AFTER: THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW MIDDLE CLASS \t58 Templeman\t60 First Contact\t60 Unpaid Labour \t62 A Long History of Failure\t65 Decisive Events\t68 The Great Change\t70 Making it Stick\t72 The New Middle Class: First Stirrings\t73 Local Action Works Locally – but Only Locally \t75 CHAPTER 3\t THE 1970s BREAKDOWN OF KEYNESIANISM\t76 Jobs\t77 Industrial Unionism that Wasn’t\t78 The Deaths Column\t80 Beginning of the End\t82 Labour’s Response\t84 The Developing Crisis\t86 Based on Rubbish Data\t88 The Pivotal Point of Post-War Politics\t90 NUPE’s Engagement Plan\t91 The National Minimum Wage\t93 The Endless Problem of Wage Control\t94 The Statutory National Minimum Wage Emerges\t97 1974 and All That\t99 5% of Bugger All is Bugger All\t100 Going Outside the TUC Box\t101 Government Strategy Implodes\t104 Government Nonsense\t106 Callaghan and Healey Make the Jump\t108 Reaction and Counter Reaction\t110 Crunch Time: the Winter of 1978-79\t112 Testing the Temperature of the Water and Heating It Up  at the Same Time\t114 Failures of Leadership\t115 Biggest Wage Shock in Modern History\t116 The Powerful Do What They Can\t118 1.6 Million on Strike\t119 Going to the Top\t120 Fisher Fails to Organise, Callaghan Digs In\t121 Why This was Pivotal\t123 CHAPTER 4\t WORKING IN PARLIAMENT AND THE DEVELOPMENT  OF THE REBEL ALLIANCE\t125 Getting Started\t126 The Patch\t128 The PLP\t132 Elitism and Control\t135 The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy\t136 Revolts and Structural Change\t137 CLPD, the Original Form\t138 Open Revolt for the First Time\t140 Special Conference: the Irony of Victory\t142 Slow Motion Train Wreck\t144 No One in Charge\t146 The Absent Issue\t147 Hard Graft: Multiple Roles\t149 Policy Development\t150 Low Pay\t151 Hospital Closures and Public Health\t152 The Black Report\t154 Abortion\t156 Women’s Rights and the Outrageous Attitude of Some Labour MPs\t160 Dealing with the Sex Industry – and the F-Word\t162 The Forgotten History of Women’s Rights Legislation\t164 Abducted Children and ‘Seema’s Laws’\t165 Low Pay and Public Service Issues Rumble on\t167 Stasis and Indolence\t169 The 1982 Wage Dispute\t171 The Economy and the Move to Deregulation, Unemployment and a Smaller State\t172 Social Security Front Line\t174 Deflation and Sod the Consequences: Learning to Win Elections with Mass Unemployment\t175 Nuclear Power and Climate Change in the 1980s\t177 Transport: the Attack on Subsidies\t181 School Meals and Milk: the Education Bill 1980\t182 The Falklands Crisis\t184 Eastern Europe: Opposing Stalinism and Repression\t186 Decay of the Tribune Group and Creation of the Socialist Campaign Group\t188 Always Getting it Wrong\t192 Leaving the Place \t195 CHAPTER 5\t THE FAILURE OF LOCAL LEADERSHIP\t199 Ken’s failing policies\t200 Abolition: Victory and Ultimate Defeat\t201 Defeat for Thatcher and Jenkin\t205 Money and Who Controlled What\t207 Rate Capping: the Year Zero Pol Pot strategy\t208 Victory for Common Sense\t210 Protecting London\t215 Stopping the Bonkers Nonsense\t217 Propaganda on the Rates: the Outreach Team\t218 Legislation, Legislation, Legislation \t220 Failing to Deal with the Poll Tax\t222 Derbyshire: The Ultimate Horror Show\t224 Unreformed Bureaucracy and Libel Actions as Control\t226 Let’s Build a Holiday Resort – in the Soviet Union\t229 No Governance: Personal Rule\t232 The Very Worst of Local Authorities\t235 Lambeth: a Different Kind of Problem\t236 Deliberate Concealment\t237 Outright Corruption, Brown Paper Envelope Style\t240 Local Government in the 1980s\t241 The National Response: Tiny\t242 Reforming the Local State\t244 Malevolence in Action\t246 The Last Benn Initiative\t247 Twin Track Strategy, Failing\t248 CHAPTER 6\t BLAIR\/BROWN AND THE TRIUMPH OF CROSLANDISM\t251 Social Change in the 1990s: The Influence of Social Class  and other Variables on Social Attitudes\t251 The changing Size and Shape of the Classes\t254 A Nation of Shopkeepers at Last\t255 Political Generations\t256 Uncontrollable Change\t260 1997 and After\t261 Preparation Low\t262 Governing Blair Style\t265 Lapses of Judgement – and Very Good Luck\t265 Cassandras and Failure to Take Note\t270 Important History Lessons\t272 On the Ground in Derbyshire: the Divine Right to Rule\t273 Trying and Failing to Create an Infrastructure\t276 Huge Fight over Methane\t278 Constructive Threats\t280 £26m Victory\t282 The Labour Establishment\t283 A Limited Talent Pool\t285 Fissures and Factions\t287 Charges Withdrawn and then Reinvented\t288 The 2001 Election: the Benn Factor\t290 Selection and Payback\t294 Nothing to Go On\t297 CHAPTER 7\t THE ACCIDENTAL LEADER EMERGES\t299 Anger and Vacuum\t300 The Unsupportable Friend \t301 Not Learning\t304 The PLP Candidates Fail\t305 Chaos and Inertia\t309 The Disappearances\t314 Definitely Not Planned\t315 Analysing the Corbyn Problem\t316 The Strategic Opportunity.\t316 Strengths and Weaknesses of Team Corbyn \t319 Risk Profile \t321 Key Objectives \t324 The Narrative \t325 Coordination and Action\t327 Destabilising\t330 Saving Labour\t331 Decay and Poison \t334 The 2016 Leadership Election\t336 Inversion of Power: Permanent or Not?\t338 Embourgeoisement – or Not?\t341 It’s Not the Ultra-Left Wot Won It\t342 A Very Large Sub Culture\t344 CHAPTER 8\t THE DESTRUCTION OF WORKING CLASS REPRESENTATION AND THE ULTIMATE TRIUMPH OF PRESSURE GROUP POLITICS\t346 Uncertain Start and Searching for a Role\t347 The PLP in Charge – for a While\t348 Revolts and Resolution\t350 A Transformed Membership – the Working Class Largely Gone\t352 Sub Culture Development\t354 Is the Revolt Repeatable?\t357 Power decisions 1945: Ushering in the Dominance of the PLP\t358 Return to Normalcy?\t360 Class Structure and Party Identification\t361 Voters Switching Between the Conservative and Labour Parties \t362 Small Parties Don’t Hold on to Voters \t362 Left Wing Right Wing All in One Person\t363 The Disappearing Working Class – in Labour’s Leadership Cadre\t364 From a Party of Outsiders to a Party of Insiders\t365 Support and Training \t368 The Effectiveness Deficit\t369 Experience of Running Absolutely Nothing\t370 Parliamentary Reform Fails \t373 PLP: A Tool of Pressure Groups?\t376 The Minimalist Blair Revolution Inside the Party\t378 The Upending of Internal Power \t378 The Problems of Sharing Power\t379 Working Class Candidates Gone\t380 The Most Middle Class Party in Britain\t380 The Working Class Say Goodbye\t382 No Voter Loyalty\t382 Right and Left – Can’t Tell the Difference\t383 The Elephant in the Room\t384 Defining and Defending the Boundaries\t385 Communities Largely Gone\t386 From the Top Judgements and Misjudgements \t387 Leaden-Footed Responses\t389 CHAPTER 9\t THE FAILURE OF PARTIES AS INSTITUTIONS\t392 From Social Class to the Internet\t395 Parties and Government\t396 The Cult of Amateurism\t399 Better Political Parties Mean Better Government\t400 Poor Ministers Cause Problems\t402 Labour has a Problem with its Culture\t406 Labour In 2050\t410 APPENDIX A\t A NOTE ON STATISTICS\t413 APPENDIX B\t A NOTE ON THE SELECTION OF 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