ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Lenin's position on its strong points and not its weak ones. It seeks to present from the history of the Soviet state is intended to have general implications. The chapter offers points that can be read as relevant to utopian politics under any conditions, even the 'best possible case', and the reader is invited to bear this consideration in mind at all points. Lenin suggested that the phenomenon of the state had taken on a new complexity, not simplicity. Weber postulated a link between development and bureaucracy by suggesting the extension of administrative tasks in qualitative and quantitative forms. A division of labour does, and must, remain between the legislature and executive, and in his rejection of this fundamental provision Lenin displays his ignorance of European political philosophy, his weak grasp of contemporary history, his unconcern for the nature of genuinely democratic possibilities, and his reluctance to engage in intellectual inquiry in any serious manner.
