Why does America need to stop existing in a communist world? Why can't it simply have it's inner power structures replaced with communism while remaining in existence? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by HexaSnoot@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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This is not a joke. I actually don't know.

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[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago

As a matter of fact, the exact opposite is the case. Marx's idea is that the working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery", and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

back-to-me , State and Revolution

If you haven’t read State and Revolution, I recommend you do so at your earliest opportunity. It’s one of the best pieces of theory and written with such passion. A joy to read, tbh.

Anyway, as others have posted, but also the US is a bourgeois state and is structured for the purpose of reinforcing bourgeois rule. Anything that could be called communist that rose within its borders would be so fundamentally different that the United States of America would be dead: its corpse fertilizing the soil for something good to grow in its place.

[-] HexaSnoot@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's a really good quote. Is State and Revolution an easy read? I'm a dumber communist because I get demotivated easily with reading material.

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

It’s easier than Capital for sure. Lenin was a very captivating writer, IMO. State and Rev and What is to be Done? are bangers. I’m not as well read as I would like to be, but i highly recommend those two. You’ll come out the other side shit talking Kautsky for sure.