The origin of the family, private property and the state - Frederick Engels
Engels' 1884 book focusing on early human history, following the disintegration of the primitive community and the emergence of a class society based on private property. Engels looks into the origin and essence of the state, and concludes it is bound to wither away leaving a classless society.
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Engels wrote: The Russian…
It's neither here nor there, but it's interesting to note that Bakunin also (correctly) critiqued Russian peasants' admiration for the tsar in the Appendix to his work Statism and Anarchy, along with other aspects of the Russian peasantry/mir. Nonetheless, Bakunin also called on Russian radicals to "go to the people" in the same work. Prior to the emancipation, serfs would often petition the tsar if their lords behaved cruelly or unfairly (not that Russian serfdom wasn't already cruel and unfair); so to a large extent, peasants directed their frustrations at their lords rather than at the tsar or political order itself. If it's of any interest, one can see some historical examples of serfs petitioning the tsar during uprisings in this text here.
Some relevant quotes from Statism and Anarchy:
(One could also note that workers, many of them former peasants who had migrated to the cities, were en route to deliver a petition to the tsar before being shot down in the Bloody Sunday Massacre of 1905, sparking the 1905 Revolution.)
Pdf of Marx's full comments…
Pdf of Marx's full comments here; https://libcom.org/article/notes-bakunins-book-statehood-and-anarchy-karl-marx