State
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the State · city · constitution · fatherland · government · political power · public power
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The Communist Manifesto (English) · Law in a Free State (English)
Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production;
in the texts
Against Aristogeiton I
The Athenian civic community and constitution whose welfare, order, and rights are at stake.
if Aristo is acquitted, to whom is the State to look for compensation for the defendant’s illegal acts?
For what fatal or dangerous act will he shrink from, men of Athens,—this polluted wretch, infected with hereditary hatred of democracy?
May Zeus and all the gods grant that Athens may never be so short of real men that any honorable task should have to be performed by an Aristogeiton!
The Communist Manifesto
The organized power of one class for oppressing another, which the proletariat must seize and eventually abolish.
Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production;
The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, *i.
When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character.
Law in a Free State
The central political institution discussed throughout, defined by the author as the resultant of social forces, or equivalently as the effective majority of a group.
(And by the State I wish to be understood as here meaning the effective majority of a group, be it a club or be it a nation,) This looks plausible, but alas!
The power of the State may be defined as the resultant of all the social forces operating within a definite area, “It follows,” says Professor Huxley, with characteristic logical thoroughness, “that no limit is, or can be, theoretically set to State interference.