As therefore the 'state' is only a transitional institution which is used in the struggle, in the revolution, in order to hold down niederzuhalten one's adversaries by force, it is pure nonsense to talk of a 'free people's state'; so long as the proletariat still uses the state, it does not use it in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible of speak of freedom, the state, as such, ceases to exist.