Question

"...The replacement of the bourgeois by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution. The abolition of the proletarian state, i.e., of all states, is only possible through 'withering away'..."

-Vladimir I. Lenin, State and Revolution, 1917

This quote most clearly shows the influence of which of the following writers?

John Locke
Karl Marx
Charles Darwin
Adam Smith

Answer 1

B. Karl Marx

Karl Marx is one of the authors who wrote the "Communist Manifesto" which supporters like Lenin get their inspiration from with his ideals of worker's rights and the fall of the bourgeois.