• TimeNaan@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    There can be no checks and balances on a state.

    States only act in a way to preserve themselves. If that means by helping the working class - so be it. If it means oppressing the working class - that’s ok too. As long as the structure and elites remain in place.

    Which is why authoritarian state communism always degenerates into a kind of state capitalism where the owner class is the state instead of capitalists. In communism there is no owner class

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      10 hours ago

      This is nonsense, and ascribes a supernatural element to whatever it is you declare a “state” without analyzing its structures or mechanisms. As a consequence, you incorrectly pretend that Communism somehow would not have a government, when the point of Marxism is working towards full Public Ownership and Central Planning through developing the Public Forces. Government officials are an extension of the dominant class, with a fully public economy there no longer exists classes.