The State Is Nothing But An Instrument

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.

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.

How Do You Think The Transition From The Present Situation To Community Of Property Is To Be Effected? The First, Fundamental Condition For The Introduction Of Community Of Property Is The Political Liberation Of The Proletariat Through A Democratic Constitution.

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.

Labour Is The Source Of All Wealth, The Political Economists Assert. And It Really Is The Source -- Next To Nature, Which Supplies It With The Material That It Converts Into Wealth. But It Is Even Infinitely More Than This. It Is The Prime Basic Condition For All Human Existence, And This To Such An Extent That, In A Sense, We Have To Say That Labour Created Man Himself.