 Complete the following phrase:  Engels echoed his partner, maintaining that the absence of a standing army, the self-policing of the quarters, and other features meant that the Commune was no longer a state in the old, repressive sense of the term. It was a transitional form, moving towards the abolition of the state as such. He used the famous term later taken up by Lenin and the Bolsheviks: the Commune was, he said, the first dictatorship of the proletariat, a state run by workers and in the interests of workers. But Marx and Engels were not entirely uncritical of the Commune. The split between the Marxists and anarchists at the 