Withering away of the state

The phrase stems from Friedrich Engels, who wrote in part 3, chapter 2 of Anti-Dühring (1878): A related quote from Engels comes from Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884): == Interpretations ==

Some trace the concept of the state withering away back to the early Karl Marx of the 1840s and to the socialist anarchist theorist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. However, Marx's advocacy for the dictatorship of the proletariat and Proudhon's antagonism towards the state proved uncomfortable bedfellows, and the two thinkers parted company . Proudhon's ideas on withering influenced the Paris Commune of 1871. who later expanded on the idea Although Engels first introduced the terminology of "the withering away of the state", he attributed the underlying concept to Marx, and other Marxist theorists—including Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924)—would later expand on it. == See also ==