Here we have a formulation of one of the most remarkable and most important ideas of Marxism on the subject of the state, namely, the idea of the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' (as Marx and Engels began to call it after the Paris Commune); and also a very interesting definition of the state which also belongs to the category of the 'forgotten words' of Marxism: 'the state,'.e., 'the proletariat organized as the ruling class.'