that is to say, all
those inequalities will cease which engender economic classes, or which
are engendered by them, and the disappearance of classes will put an end
to the possibility of the state, as domination of man over man. The
technical and pedagogical government of intelligence will form the only
organization of society.

In this fashion, scientific socialism, in an ideal fashion at least, has
triumphed over the state; and its triumph has given it a complete
knowledge both of its mode of origin and the reasons for its natural
disappearance. It has understood it precisely because it does not rise
up against it in a one-sided and subjective fashion, as did more than
once, at different epochs, the cynics, the stoics, the epicureans of all
sorts, the religious sectaries, the visionary monks, the utopians and
finally, in our days, the anarchists of every stripe. Still more,
instead of rising up against it, scientific socialism is proposing to
show how the state continually rises up of itself against itself, by
creating in the means with which it cannot dispense, as, for example, a
colossal system of taxation, militarism, universal suffrage, the
development of education, etc., the conditions of its own ruin. The
society which has produced it will reabsorb it; that is to say, that
just as society in organizing a new form of production will eliminate
the antagonisms between capital and labor, so, with the disappearance of
proletarians and the conditions which render proletarians possible, will
disappear all dependence of men upon his fellow man in any form of
hierarchy, whatever it may be.

The terms in which the genesis and the development of the state evolve,
from its initial point of appearance in a particular community, where
economic differentiation is beginning, up to the moment where this
disappearance begins to foreshadow itself, make it henceforth
intelligible to us.

The State has been reduced till it is but a necessary complement of
certain definite economic forms, and thus the theory which would have
seen in it an independent factor in history is thenceforth forever
eliminated.

It is henceforth relatively easy to take account of the fashion in which
_law_ has been raised up to the rank of a decisive factor of society,
and thus of history, directly or indirectly.

Before all else, we must remember in what fashion arose this philosophic
conception of justice generalized, which is the principal foundat