Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

From the first day to this sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.

We find two great gangs of political speculators who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants but in reality dominate and plunder it.

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.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

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.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.