But the state is by no means a power forced on society from without; just as little is it 'the reality of the ethical idea', 'the image and reality of reason', as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a product of society at a certain stage of development; it is the admission that this society has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, that it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is powerless to dispel.
— Friedrich Engels Modern

Communist Manifesto co-author

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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Date / Period

1884

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Controversial

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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch09.htm

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