friedrich engels asserted that the state would ultimately wither away.
who asserted that the state would ultimately wither away?
friedrich engels
the popularity of falun gong, and its subsequent banning by state authorities, led to the convening of a three-day national work conference for religious affairs in 1999, the highest-level gathering on religious affairs in the party's history. jiang zemin, who had subscribed to the classical marxist view that religion would wither away, was forced to change his mind when he learnt that religion in china was in fact growing, not decreasing. in his concluding speech to the national work conference, jiang asked the participants to find a way to make "socialism and religion adapt to each other". he added that "asking religions to adapt to socialism doesn't mean we want religious believers to give up their faith". jiang ordered ye xiaowen to study the classical marxist works in depth to find an excuse to liberalize the ccp's policy towards religion. it was discovered that friedrich engels had written that religion would survive as long as problems existed. with this rationale, religious organizations were given more autonomy.
ideology of the communist party of china
section::::legacy.:lincoln and the declaration.





























the declaration's relationship to slavery was taken up in 1854 by abraham lincoln, a little-known former congressman who idolized the founding fathers. lincoln thought that the declaration of independence expressed the highest principles of the american revolution, and that the founding fathers had tolerated slavery with the expectation that it would ultimately wither away. for the united states to legitimize the expansion of slavery in the kansas-nebraska act, thought lincoln, was to repudiate the principles of the revolution. in his october 1854 peoria speech, lincoln said:
united states declaration of independence