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No Nation Can Be Free If It Oppresses Other Nations.

People Have Learned By Bitter Experience That The "european Fraternal Union Of Peoples" Cannot Be Achieved By Mere Phrases And Pious Wishes, But Only By Profound Revolutions And Bloody Struggles; They Have Learned That The Question Is Not That Of A Fraternal Union Of All European Peoples Under A Single Republican Flag, But Of An Alliance Of The Revolutionary Peoples Against The Counter-revolutionary Peoples, An Alliance Which Comes Into Being Not On Paper, But Only On The Battlefield.

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.

The First Class Opposition That Appears In History Coincides With The Development Of The Antagonism Between Man And Woman In Monogamous Marriage, And The First Class Oppression Coincides With That Of The Female Sex By The Male.

Freedom Does Not Consist In Any Dreamt-of Independence From Natural Laws, But In The Knowledge Of These Laws, And In The Possibility This Gives Of Systematically Making Them Work Towards Definite Ends.