Status of Violence in Marx's Theory of Revolution

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Many revolutionary moves using violence to achieve past and present goals are inspired by Karl Marx. But it is clear that if you scan lots of books written in Marx, few people are investigating the location of violence in his revolutionary theory. Here we discuss Nick Hewlett Marx's position on violence and ask how it leads us in the 21st century. Nick Hewlett is a French research professor at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Blood and Progress. Violence in the pursuit of liberation (Edinburgh, 2016), the phenomenon of Sarkozy (Imprint Academic, 2011), Badiou, Balibar, Rancière. Reconsidering the liberation (Continuum, 2007), contemporary French democracy (Continuum, 2003), and contemporary French politics. Analysis of conflict and consensus since 1945 (Polity, 1998)

For centuries, the revolutionary theory has evolved since the new revolution and the communist revolution. Russian revolution theory is the historical view of Marx 's materialist theory. Marx was interested in how the revolution took place and explained it as an economic and national collapse caused by the production system being unable to further develop and satisfy the needs of the working class. Regarding Marx 's theory, Hobbsbaum (1986) expressed a revolution in the context of the transformation of the country' s history. Furthermore, Skocpol ('Rentier State', 1982: 265) defines the "social revolution" as "a rapid and fundamental transformation of state and rank structure and its dominant ideology".

The revolution is supposed to continue. The revolution will continue until the realization of communism. Marxist national theory and revolutionary theory are perfectly related concepts. But Marx and Marxists made a difference between different types of revolution. These differences are very important in the field of comprehensive analysis of Marxist revolutionary theory. Marx, Engel, Lenin absolutely observed this country from various angles. They believe that the state is not only a niche of human independence, but also a tool to conquer humanity. There is no need to forcibly resolve this condition. State power should be mandatory and the highest power of the working class should be established. At the same time, all courses are abolished. When achieving these two goals, the state is not important as it is just a tool of abuse.