But how can it be otherwise?" In other words, from its very beginnings the state has been an institution of violence. A standing army and police are the chief instruments of state power. In order to maintain their power, the ruling classes assume a monopoly of violence: "This public power exists in every state it consists not merely of armed men but also of material adjuncts, prisons, and institutions of coercion of all kinds. Lenin begins in the first chapter from the analysis of Engels, that the state was created at that moment of ancient history when class conflict became otherwise unmanageable. It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of revolution' than to write about it." Lenin wrote the notes for The State and Revolution while still in hiding and finished it in August 1917 when the Russian Revolution was, in his words, "completing the first stage of its development." He had planned to finish it with an analysis of the Russian Revolution, but in a postscript, he says ". Its relation to a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century Lenin: The State and Revolution Strategy for Revolution in 21st Century
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