- Prefaces
- Chapter 1: Class Society and the State
- Chapter 2: The Experience of 1848-51
- Chapter 3: Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx's Analysis
- Chapter 4: Supplementary Explanations by Engels
- Chapter 5: The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State
- Chapter 6: The Vulgarisation of Marxism by Opportunists
- Postscript