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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The problem with communism is the requirement for an intermediary despotic stage. There is no way that anyone involved ever intended it to get beyond that (with the possible exception of Marx himself). That's just not how humans work.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Marx's "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" was envisaged as democracy though.

Bourgeois democracy (ie what we largely live in today) is "Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie".

It's in reference to what class holds power, not an actual autocratic or oligarchic power structure.