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Marx had pointed out specifically that the state is the apparatus used by one class to suppress another. Lenin, in commenting on Engels’ The Origin of Family, Private Property and State in 1917, quoted Engels as saying, “The state is the product of a certain stage of social development.”1 Then Lenin went further by saying that the state is the product and expression of class contradictions.2
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Chen, Y.P. (1966). State and Government. In: Chinese Political Thought. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0493-5_6
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