taken from: 'State and Revolution' (1919)

original text:

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

about the quoted person:

russian revolutionary and political theoretician, one of the leaders of the russian Bolshevik party since its establishment in 1903. he was the creator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and headed its first government.see vladimir ilyitch lenin for a comprehensive biography.in this quote lenin explains the marxist idea that after the communist revolution the state finally dissapears and everyone will live in absolute freedom. as long as any form of state exists, there is no absolute freedom because classes will always remain. michel foucault, however, states that freedom will never disappear entirely. he states that where knowledge and society exist, power exists.