# withering away of the state

> concept coined by Engels that, with the realization of socialism, the state will become obsolete and disappear as the society will govern itself without coercive enforcement of the law

**Wikidata**: [Q8028151](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8028151)  
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