The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
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State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous and then dies of itself. The government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of the processes of production. The state is not 'abolished'. It withers way.Friedrich Engels
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from the first dawn to the present day...
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The report of the Central Commission relates that the manufacturers began to employ children rarely of five years, often of six, very often of seven, usually of eight to nine years that the working day often lasted fourteen to sixteen hours, exclusi
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
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