The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in …

Friedrich Engels
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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist. ✨ Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
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