The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.


The state and revolution: the Marxist doctrine of the state and the tasks of the proletariat in the revolution (ed. 1918)

Vladimir Lenin Quotes

The working class must break up, smash the ready-made state machinery, and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

The working class must break up, smash the ready-made state machinery, and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

The working class must break up, smash the ready-made state machinery, and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

The working class must break up, smash the ready-made state machinery, and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.