Eventually the state will "wither away" and become obsolete, as people administer their own lives without the need for governments or laws.

And after that state withered away, it says, they desperately reached out for anyone, anywhere, who might want them as secret agents.

Marx believed that the state would wither away.

In the 20th century's so-called "communist states", the state did not in fact wither away.

Marxist doctrine asserts that law will not be required once the state has withered away.

Though globocapitalism severely constrains some political choices, the state is not withering away.

I do not think that anyone has ever seen a state wither away quite as fast as the Soviet state has in recent weeks.

Marx's later formulation of the same illusion was that the state would wither away, leaving a harmonious and classless society.

Marx and Engels were clear in that the communist goal was a classless society in which the state would have "withered away".

In a classless society the state, and therefore the bureaucracy, would wither away.