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Vladimir Lenin1870–1924

The state is an organ of class rule, an organ for the oppression of one class by another; it creates “order,” which legalizes and perpetuates this oppression by moderating the collision between the classes.

Vladimir Lenin on power

The State and Revolution (1917), Ch. 1, Sec. 1; in Essential Works of Lenin (1966)

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