No Nation Can Be Free If It

All That Is Real In Human History Becomes Irrational In The Process Of Time.

One Day We Shall Certainly 'reduce' Thought Experimentally To Molecular And Chemical Motions In The Brain; But Does That Exhaust The Essence Of Thought?

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.

Political Economy Came Into Being As A Natural Result Of The Expansion Of Trade, And With Its Appearance Elementary, Unscientific Huckstering Was Replaced By A Developed System Of Licensed Fraud, An Entire Science Of Enrichment.

The Society That Will Organize Production On The Basis Of A Free And Equal Association Of The Producers Will Put The Whole Machinery Of The State Where It Will Then Belong: Into The Museum Of Antiquities, By The Side Of The Spinning Wheel And The Bronze Axe.