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Revolution alone can "put an end" to the bourgeois state. The state in general, i.e., the most complete democracy, can only "wither away".

— Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

The State and Revolution (1917)

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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.

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