this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2026
23 points (75.6% liked)
Quotes
507 readers
1 users here now
Any good quotes from speeches, books, articles, etc
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
A+ post. There are hundreds of examples of this, but I'm reminded of the anarchist blanket rejection of cops, intelligence services, armies, borders, structured organization... no, proletarian states absolutely need all of these things to survive, but the way they function in a communist society is completely different, because they serve workers, and not capital.
People who grew up in capitalist countries have never seen how these things can manifest themselves in positive and healthy ways, so they ignorantly denounce their communist equivalents.
Well said. I remember getting caught up some in the ACAB type stuff myself in my initial transition to lefty politics. And although I'd probably still agree with it in the context of the US and the way its system operates / has operated, it's not universally applicable and a system that was going to try to replace the US in the region would need something like cops still (but actually serving the workers, like you say).