The State Is Not Abolished, It Withers

Hegel Was The First To State Correctly The Relation Between Freedom And Necessity. To Him, Freedom Is The Insight Into Necessity.

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.

It Is No Longer A Question Anywhere Of Inventing Interconnections From Out Of Our Brains, But Of Discovering Them In The Facts.

What Is Communism? Communism Is The Doctrine Of The Conditions Of The Liberation Of The Proletariat. What Is The Proletariat? The Proletariat Is That Class In Society Which Lives Entirely From The Sale Of Its Labor And Does Not Draw Profit From Any Kind Of Capital; Whose Weal And Woe, Whose Life And Death, Whose Sole Existence Depends On The Demand For Labor.

Competition Permits The Capitalist To Deduct From The Price Of Labour Power That Which The Family Earns From Its Own Little Garden Or Field; The Workers Are Compelled To Accept Any Piece Wages Offered To Them, Because Otherwise They Would Get Nothing At All, And They Could Not Live From The Products Of Their Small-scale Agriculture Alone, And Because, On The Other Hand, It Is Just This Agriculture And Landownership Which Chains Them To The Spot And Prevents Them From Looking Around For Other Employment.