Avi
“are you a commentator on Engels? ”
nope but luckily my parents had the foresight to raise me speaking yiddish. One of the many plusses is I feel comfortable readigng German (though not speaking)
The quote is from Engels’ Principles of communism or in German Grundsätze des Kommunismus
“Endlich, wenn alles Kapital, alle Produktion und aller Austausch in den Händen der Nation”
This is the final step after he outlines the steps that he envisions. In contrast in the EARLIER stage “alle Industrie, allen Transport, allen Austausch in den Händen des Staates zu konzentrieren.”
“Marx said that the state will wither away.”
Yes and the two of them coauthored the communist manifesto whci hwas after Engels’ Principles of communism