ABSTRACT
Having established the relationship between the text and the state that subsequently emerged in Russia, this chapter investigates the relationship between the text and Lenin. It maps Lenin's path to The State and Revolution, and highlights four domains or four stages in Lenin's path, that were influential in determining the destination of his intellectual journey. These four domains may be, loosely, termed those of Lenin's cosmology, Lenin's concept of parliamentarism, Lenin's culture, and Lenin's theory of political motivation. The socialist movement in nineteenth-century Europe did not conceive democracy, in general, and parliamentary institutions, in particular, as ends in themselves. Lenin had strictly disciplined his thought to exclude contamination from anything other than the Marxian tradition: Russian culture had long been dismissed as unworthy of much consideration, characterized, for Lenin, by that most devastating of handicaps, 'backwardness'. The chapter presents some points which may reveal the theory of political motivation produced by these concepts.
