State and Revolution: Marx, Lenin, & the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Red Menace
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The Withering Away of the State
The state can never possibly wither away. The base which creates it is always going to be there. So the first thing that has to happen is you have to have a revolution, which instils the dictatorship of the proletariat. But then the second thing that needs to happen is universalize proletarian control and crush remaining capitalists such that the state's no longer necessary. It becomes unnecessary for the state to co ordinate those things any more.
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