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Just how it goes I suppose
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I am also confused. Specifically about "there's no such thing". Is the meme saying (among other things) that authoritarianism doesn't exist or isn't real? That seems obviously untrue on the face of it? Unless we're redefining it so as to be meaningless.
Help me out here.
"Authoritarian" is ALL states. "Authoritarian" as we know it today was just made up by the CIA to slander actually existing socialism states like China and the DPRK
do go on, you almost got it 🤣
Almost getting it, but instead Marx famously said "Communism can only be done by tranfering all political and capital to the state, where it will willingly give away all this power." Silly us for not knowing Marx works more.
No? That's not how the withering of the state works. The state is a product of class struggle, by collectivizing all production and distribution class is ended, leaving only "the administration of things." There's no point where the state "gives away power," the state is not outside of class struggle but a product of it. Without class struggle, there's no need for the elements of society used to protect the ruling class, which in socialism is the proletariat.