Some Laws Of State Aimed At Curbing

The State Is Not Abolished, It Withers Away.

The First Act By Virtue Of Which The State Really Constitutes Itself The Representative Of The Whole Of Societythe Taking Possession Of The Means Of Production In The Name Of Societythis Is, At The Same Time, Its Last Independent Act As A State. State Interference In Social Relations Becomes, In One Domain After Another, Superfluous, And Then Dies Out Of Itself; The Government Of Persons Is Replaced By The Administration Of Things, And By The Conduct Of Processes Of Production. The State Is Not Abolished. It Dies Out.

By Bourgeoisie Is Meant The Class Of Modern Capitalists, Owners Of The Means Of Social Production And Employers Of Wage Labor. By Proletariat, The Class Of Modern Wage Laborers Who, Having No Means Of Production Of Their Own, Are Reduced To Selling Their Labor Power In Order To Live.

I Have Learned More [from Balzac] Than From All The Professional Historians, Economists, And Statisticians Put Together.

...it Was Always Our View That In Order To Attain This [proletarian Revolution] And The Other Far More Important Aims Of The Future Social Revolution, The Working Class Must First Take Possession Of The Organised Political Power Of The State And By Its Aid Crush The Resistance Of The Capitalist Class And Organise Society Anew.