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minus-squareseahorse [Ohio]Alink2•2 years agoI know very little about communism, socialism, or anarchism, but is this pretty much the answer to anarchists advocating for a stateless society?
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPlinkfedilink6•2 years agoThere is a direct answer to anarchists in The State and Revolution: The distinction between Marxists and the anarchists is this: (1) The former, while aiming at the complete abolition of the state, recognize that this aim can only be achieved after classes have been abolished by the socialist revolution, as the result of the establishment of socialism, which leads to the withering away of the state. The latter want to abolish he state completely overnight, not understanding the conditions under which the state can be abolished. (2) The former recognize that after the proletariat has won political power it must completely destroy the old state machine and replace it by a new one consisting of an organization of the armed workers, after the type of the Commune. The latter, while insisting on the destruction of the state machine, have a very vague idea of what the proletariat will put in its place and how it will use its revolutionary power. The anarchists even deny that the revolutionary proletariat should use the state power, they reject its revolutionary dictatorship. (3) The former demand that the proletariat be trained for revolution by utilizing the present state. The anarchists reject this.
I know very little about communism, socialism, or anarchism, but is this pretty much the answer to anarchists advocating for a stateless society?
There is a direct answer to anarchists in The State and Revolution: