[elk]

"for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. "

Actually, what he MEANT to say was "establishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion."

There, I fixed it.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Of course, the idiot Baldwin(and Marx) never figured out who would rule after the Proletarians ousted the Bourgeois. The answer, of course, is those closest to the coup would fight over the spoils, as they did in Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela . In our case, it will be Goldman Sachs, George Soros, and the unions ;-)