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 Grunds�tze des Kommunismus
“Endlich, wenn alles Kapital, alle Produktion und aller Austausch in den H�nden 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 H�nden 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