What Each Individual Wills Is Obstructed By

Thus At Every Step We Are Reminded That We By No Means Rule Over Nature Like A Conqueror Over A Foreign People, Like Someone Standing Outside Nature - But That We, With Flesh, Blood And Brain, Belong To Nature, And Exist In Its Midst, And That All Our Mastery Of It Consists In The Fact That We Have The Advantage Over All Other Creatures Of Being Able To Learn Its Laws And Apply Them Correctly.

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.

Three Hundred Years After Its Appearance Christianity Was The Recognized State Religion In The Roman World Empire, And In Barely Sixty Years Socialism Has Won Itself A Position Which Makes Its Victory Absolutely Certain.

The State Is Not Abolished, It Withers Away.

What Is Communism? Communism Is The Doctrine Of The Conditions Of The Liberation Of The Proletariat. What Is The Proletariat? The Proletariat Is That Class In Society Which Lives Entirely From The Sale Of Its Labor And Does Not Draw Profit From Any Kind Of Capital; Whose Weal And Woe, Whose Life And Death, Whose Sole Existence Depends On The Demand For Labor.