In A Political Struggle Of Class Against

The Free Development Of Each Is The Condition For The Free Development Of All.

People Think They Have Taken Quite An Extraordinarily Bold Step Forward When They Have Rid Themselves Of Belief In Hereditary Monarchy And Swear By The Democratic Republic. In Reality, However, The State Is Nothing But A Machine For The Oppression Of One Class By Another, And Indeed In The Democratic Republic No Less Than In The Monarchy.

The Anarchists Put The Thing Upside Down. They Declare That The Proletarian Revolution Must Begin By Doing Away With The Political Organization Of The State. But To Destroy It At Such A Moment Would Be To Destroy The Only Organism By Means Of Which The Victorious Proletariat Can Assert Its Newly-conquered Power, Hold Down Its Capitalist Adversaries, And Carry Out That Economic Revolution Of Society Without Which The Whole Victory Must End In A New Defeat And A Mass Slaughter Of The Workers Similar To Those After The Paris Commune.

Just As Marx Used To Say About The French Marxists Of The Late 'seventies: All I Know Is That I Am Not A Marxist.

Political Economy Came Into Being As A Natural Result Of The Expansion Of Trade, And With Its Appearance Elementary, Unscientific Huckstering Was Replaced By A Developed System Of Licensed Fraud, An Entire Science Of Enrichment.