“The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.” MadeStatesClassBreakReadyWorking ClassMachinery Author:Vladimir Lenin
“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.” StatesWholeSidesEqualBasesProductionsProducersWheelsMuseumsAssociationOrganizeMachinerySpinningAntiquityBronze Author:Friedrich Engels
“Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.” IfsThinkingStatesLastsChoicesEffortBreakDemocracyViolenceCitizensActivityEconomicsMajorityViolentResistanceOppressionMinoritiesMachineryResorts Book:The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism
“The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.” MindStatesFactsLawPoliticalRealizingPowerfulStructureCorporateCrucialMachineryPolitical Systems Book:The Greening of America Source: The Greening of America