Engels argued that the tools for ending capitalism are found in state capitalism, further writing: But neither the conversion into joint stock companies nor into state property deprives the productive forces of their character as capital. In the case of joint-stock companies this is obvious. And the modern state, too, is only the organization with which bourgeois society provides itself in order to maintain the general external conditions of the capitalist mode of production against encroachments either by the workers or by individual capitalists. The modern state, whatever its form, is then the state of the capitalists, the ideal collective body of all the capitalists. The more productive forces it takes over as its property, the more it becomes the real collective body of the capitalists, the more citizens it exploits. The workers remain wage-earners, proletarians. The capitalist relationship isn't abolished; it is rather pushed to the extreme. But at this extreme it is transformed into its opposite. State ownership of the productive forces is not the solution of the conflict, but it contains within itself the formal means, the key to the solution.
engels argued that the tools for ending capitalism are found in state capitalism further writing but neither the conversion into joint stock companies nor into state property deprives the productive forces of their character as capital in the case of joint-stock companies this is obvious and the modern state too is only the organization with which bourgeois society provides itself in order to maintain the general external conditions of the capitalist mode of production against encroachments either by the workers or by individual capitalists the modern state whatever its form is then the state of the capitalists the ideal collective body of all the capitalists the more productive forces it takes over as its property the more it becomes the real collective body of the capitalists the more citizens it exploits the workers remain wage-earners proletarians the capitalist relationship isn't abolished; it is rather pushed to the extreme but at this extreme it is transformed into its opposite state ownership of the productive forces is not the solution of the conflict but it contains within itself the formal means the key to the solution