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Marxism is a society where there is no state, so it will not structure society. Lenin on the topic: It was solely against this kind of “abolition” of the s
by yk 13y ago
Marxism is a society where there is no state, so it will not structure society.
Lenin on the topic:
It was solely against this kind of “abolition” of the state that
Marx fought in refuting the anarchists! He did not at all oppose
the view that the state would disappear when classes disappeared,
or that it would be abolished when classes were abolished. What
he did oppose was the proposition that the workers should renounce
the use of arms, organized violence, that is, the state, which is
to serve to "crush the resistance of the bourgeoisie".
Source: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch04.htm#s2 http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch...
- dragonwriter 13y agoLenin's not exactly a reliable source where it comes to describing Marx (in much the same way that the ocean is not exactly free of water), since he was trying to sell a program radically divergent from Marx's under the banner of Marxism.
- yk 13y agoActually I like to quote Lenin on this precisely because he is a vanguardist. So the argument is essentially, that even the driest ocean is still pretty wet.
- Turing_Machine 13y agoAnd yet somehow this utopia never arrives. Instead, it always turns to this: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM