Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Withering away of the state" in English language version.
At first, Marx and Proudhon were friends. They held in common certain fundamental ideas such as the withering away of the state, the elimination of unearned incomes and exploitation, the disappearance of money, and the creation of a classless society.
Proudhon wants to grab by the root what he regards as the present world's most potent instruments of oppression: hierarchy and government.
The notion [...] of the dictatorship of the proletariat [...] was undoubtedly formulated by Marx only cautiously: it can only be defined in relation to its dialectical negation, which would be the withering away of the state.
[...] there was a Proudhonist aspiration to unleash a revolution from below, in which initiative would remain with the people and central power wither away.
The Commune, wrote Lenin, had demonstrated how 'the state begins to wither away' as bureaucracy is destroyed and power seized by the people.
