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The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

Vladimir Lenin
Class, Break, States
"The State and Revolution". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1917.
The working class must break up, smash the ready-made state machinery, and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.