State and Revolution (1917) describes the role of the state in society, the necessity of proletarian trend, and the theoretic inadequacies of sociable democracy in achieving trend. It details the inherent character of the condition as a tool for class oppression, a creation given birth to of one cultural class’ desire to control all other cultural classes. Whether a dictatorship or a democracy, the condition continues to be in the control of the ruling class. Even inside a democratic capitalist republic, the ruling class won’t willingly relinquish political power, maintaining it via numerous strategies. Hence, according to this view, communist revolution may be the sole remedy for the abolition of the state.