The two marks, then, defining the Capitalist State are: (i) That the citizens thereof are politically free: i.e. can use or withhold at will their possessions or their labor, but are also (2) divided into capitalist and proletarian in such proportions that the State as a whole is not characterized by the institution of ownership among free citizens, but by the restriction of ownership to a section markedly less than the whole, or even to a small minority. Such a Capitalist State is essentially divided into two classes of free citizens, the one capitalist or owning, the other propertyless or
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