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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. 
Engels, Friedrich
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Source: FRIEDRICH ENGELS, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific, trans. Edward Aveling, p. 49 . ·
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Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820 August 5, 1895) was a 19th-century German political philosopher. With his partner, the better known Karl Marx, Engels developed communist theory, co-authoring The Communist Manifesto (1848). Engels also edited several volumes of Das Kapital after Marx's death. · Can we improve this biography? Post your version
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