“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
“When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.” StatesClassWorking ClassProletariat Author:Vladimir Lenin
“Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.” StatesHouseClassTechnologyCreditDebtCommunismExpensiveOwnersPushingGoodsWorking ClassUnbearableBankruptcy Author:Karl Marx
“The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.” StatesPoliticalUnitedClassUnited StatesDevelopmentLateMassOrganizationWorking ClassRetardedRetard Author:C. L. R. James
“The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.” SelfStatesLastsSocialResultsClassDemocracyHabitDisciplineAuthorityRootsObedienceAcquireCapitalistRulersSocialistCommitteesSelf DisciplineWorking ClassBourgeoisReplacementsOld HabitsServilitySocial Democracy Author:Rosa Luxemburg