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Most states which were controlled by a communist party did not see themselves as communist states, but rather as socialist states on the way to communism. (Stat
by phaer 12y ago
Most states which were controlled by a communist party did not see themselves as communist states, but rather as socialist states on the way to communism. (State) socialism was/is seen as a form of bootstraping mode to communism but communism itself is mostly state-less in marxist theories.
- crpatino 12y agoThat does not preclude the fact that once there is a elite that runs the socialist state, they will put every resource, big and small, available to them to the task of perpetuating "bootstrap mode" forever. Meanwhile, intellectuals who dream about the next coming of Communist Paradise on Earth will do nothing. Dreaming is cheap after all.