Marx and Engels on Revolution
Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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Do the Capitalists Know That the Modern State Is a Lies?
The modern state is a kind of double institution all the way through its doubleness, he says. It rules both through fear and through hope, which offers possibility of freedom through terror,. From Marx and Engels, that state or rather that idea of the state is a lie, writes Frida Ghitis. The bourgeoisie can never admit it as such, they have to dress it up as though it was something else," she adds.
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