No Nation Can Be Free If It

If There Were No Frenchwomen, Life Wouldn't Be Worth Living.

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.

If In All Ideology Men And Their Circumstances Appear Upside-down As In A Camera Obscura, This Phenomenon Arises Just As Much From Their Historical Life-process As The Inversion Of Objects On The Retina Does From The Physical Life-process.

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.

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.