These gentlemen think when they have changed the names of things, they have changed the things themselves. That is how these profound thinkers mock the whole world.

Engels

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

In fairness, a lot of socialist theory has a distinction between a "state" and a "government". The former is the repressive apparatus (police, army and ideological state aparatuses) and the latter consists of the civilian administration which deals with centralised organisation of labor/economy. This is why marx could describe a "stateless society" as developed-communism.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

But in that case we again land on square one problem of pushing the communism button instantly.

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah. I'm an ML