this is implying that the state will peacefully hand over control to the workers and the higher-ups will want to let go of their power and just abdicate their positions and everyone will live happily ever after

the truth is, and all throughout history, the state has never dissolved itself, it will perpetuate itself and if the state is the superior method of societal organization, what keeps egalitarian communism reached through state capitalism from falling back into hierarchy, even if it is reached globally

We have never seen a global proliferation of workers states that exists without organized resistance from capitalist states

Can’t make that assumption

I’d rather be under China or the USSR than america right now so that’s what I’m working towards

Personally I don't have any problem with powerful states as long as they serve the interests of their people and not money/foreign powers

You’ve gotta be way more specific in your needs then my guy

even with a global proliferation, and not taking into account that “AES” states have fought each other before, do you really think the “great man” at the top would let go of that intoxicating domineering power?

from what i’ve observed, the “great man” at the top of the hierarchy in these states basically ends up controlling everything like kings since they are the big man in the party

i believe if this ever happened, they would either form a global hegemonic empire or just not dissolve at all

y'all keep arguing with sniper lmao

Yeah I'm not really a marxist I just like the CCP

That’s not up to him, it’s up to the party behind him and it’s commissars

Thus stressing the need for education regarding theory

The socialist state is fundamentally constructed in a different fashion from previous hierarchical political entities, why apply the same logic to them?

who does the internal purges or has people disappeared under his watch? who is the controller of the lockstep?

they really aren’t different though, once you strip away all the agitprop and aesthetics, it’s the same s***

The party?

It really isn’t

Even the CIA said it isn’t

Once again sniper the CIA themselves didn’t call the USSR a dictatorship why would you subscribe to the same rhetoric of a dictatorship to describe the USSR

cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

To me reading this was as important than most leftist theory to my inclination towards marxism over other strains of leftists just because the most diametrically anti communist organization in the post WW2 era didn’t call STALIN a dictator

one man can control an entire party if they have enough pull, you see it in liberal democracies too, trump and the republicans

the power struggles between mao and deng reflected this dynamic as well

but here’s something odd, don’t you guys call it a “dictatorship of the proletariat” yourselves, and everything is credited to whatever leader is in power and the party they control

The USSR’s democratic structures reflected that

Saying “the people of the USSR” continuously isn’t as easily useful to reflect different habits of the party as time rolls around

Better to attribute it to the genSec

What a useless argument regarding semantics LMAO

“If there’s a leader whys it called a dictatorship of the proletariat?”

“Why do you call the government by the leaders name?”
goddamn puritans

Muh opium war

Ding ding ding

The eastern left has the burden of developing socialism AND appeasing the West because the Western left is too self indulgent and spends their entire time drinking “good guy soup”while their states constantly topple any government who doesn’t submit to economic subjugation

One man controlling the entire state is actually good especially when the state is trying to resist international capital

Imagine the CIA trying to pay Stalin off with a bribe... what can you possibly give him the man already has everything?

His motivations are purely idealogical... to better the lives of his people and protect the USSR's right to sovereignty

The caveat of course is the leader has to be very competent and appointing the right people to the right political positions is something the CCP excels at

I just don’t get how sniper thinks socialists would just build a hierarchy Willy Nilly knowing full well what they just abolished