# “THE BOURGEOIS WAR IN FRANCE”
Source: PSS, Volume 33

“Der Burgerkrieg in Frankreich” (Leipzig, 1876). Dated May 30, 1871 (cf. p. 2, mid‑page)—the entire third chapter, or nearly so, is devoted to the question of the state, elucidating the fact that the working class cannot simply “take possession of the ready‑made state machine” (see above, p. 1).
organs of “state power” “…The centralized state power, with its ubiquitous organs—standing army, police, bureaucracy, clergy, judiciary…” ((originating in the Middle Ages and further developed in the nineteenth century…)). With the intensification of class antagonism between capital and labor, “the state power increasingly assumed the character of a public authority
* In the manuscript, this phrase is written between the two quotations from K. Kautsky’s articles cited above. Ed.
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