 | Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, Edward Dimendberg - 2023 - 834 sidor
...details become antiquated. One thing especially was proved by the Commune, viz., that the 'working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery and wield it for its own purposes.' " What is the actual wording of the passage thus declared to be out of date? It runs as follows: The... | |
 | Frank Fischer, Carmen Sirianni - 1994 - 660 sidor
...themselves masters of their own destinies, by seizing upon the governmental power." But the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made State machinery, and wield it for its own purposes. The centralised State power, with its ubiquitous organs of standing army, police, bureaucracy, clergy,... | |
 | Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon - 1994 - 388 sidor
...section, Marx discusses the nature and structure of the Commune itself "The working class," Marx declares, "cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made State machinery, and wield it for its own purposes. "It must set up its own form of government. He goes on to describe the intentions of the Communards... | |
 | Ralph Miliband - 1995 - 236 sidor
...there is the insistence that, in Marx's own words in The Civil War in France (1871), 'the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes', but that it must 'smash' that machinery and replace it with a state of an entirely new type, subject... | |
 | Antonio Callari, Stephen Cullenberg, Carole Biewener - 1994 - 588 sidor
...transcended— that is, a state of the Paris Commune type. "The working class," Marx commented, "can not simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes." This was because the very nature of the existing state was inherent in "the historical genesis of capitalist... | |
 | Kevin Anderson - 1995 - 340 sidor
...be thrown off, Marx writes, but the bourgeois state also needs to be destroyed: "the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes."17 He includes a fairly detailed critique of the modern state, "with its ubiquitous organs... | |
 | Richard Paul Bellamy, Angus C. Ross - 1996 - 356 sidor
...that the bourgeois state would have to be 'smashed' before socialism could be built. The working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery and wield it for its own purposes', Marx wrote and Lenin repeated. Having destroyed these bourgeois political institutions, the working... | |
 | Karl Marx - 1996 - 306 sidor
...themselves masters of their own destinies, by seizing upon the governmental power.' But the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes. The centralised state power, with its ubiquitous organs of standing army, police, bureaucracy, clergy,... | |
 | Rhr Collective - 1996 - 196 sidor
...details become antiquated. One thing especially was proved by the Commune, viz., that the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for their own purposes. 35. We must, however, listen with some sense of what the significant topics are,... | |
 | Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels - 1998 - 108 sidor
...details become antiquated. One thing especially was proved by the Commune, viz., that 'the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery,...its own purposes' . (See 'The Civil War in France', section III, where this point is further developed.) Further, it is self-evident that the criticism... | |
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One thing especially was proved by the Commune, viz, that "the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made State machinery, and wield it for its own purposes. 
