"intermediate stages" . . "the state protects the ruling class" . "state" . "rejection of the state\u2019s legitimacy" . "current state of bourgeois class relations" . "Marxist theory of the state" . . "Marxist definition" . "Marx's theory of the state#Bourgeois state" . "inclinations of the state" . "Marx's theory of the state" . . "Marx's theory of the state" . .