A friend asked me a question about examples of the way a state functions as an instrument of the current economical system. He said he was in a discussion about the end goal of Communism (moneyless, classless, stateless) with someone that said that without a state, the ‘poorer’ regions would be oppressed by the ‘richer’ regions.
What I’m asking for is examples of the state as an instrument of the current economical system and also examples or theory of how a socialist state with a vanguard party evolves into full communism.
I have read several books about this I think but I’m also blacking out on who and what was written.
Why is it that when the workers strike for better pay and safe working conditions, they are met by the police gassing them and cracking skulls? What rules are the strikers breaking other than the unspoken labor discipline the capitalist class demands?
This is why cops get so much money and surplus military hardware. It’s to beat you into submission if need be.
Why is it that wage theft is the most widespread form of theft and the least prosecuted? Why is the penalty for wage theft a minor fine + backpayment of wages and the penalty for petty theft can be years in jail?
Deficit spending is used as an excuse to cut social services. We have this debt and the interest must be serviced at the public’s expense. Canada recently released “Ukraine bonds”. Investors will buy these bonds and the proceeds will go to the IMF to give to Ukraine. And then the Canadian government will have to pay the interest on these bonds at the public’s expense.
Why is it that petite bourgeois landlords are allowed to overleverage the fuck out themselves to build little empires of slums and airbnbs and you can’t exercise that same ridiculous leverage to buy your first and only residence? Financialization and the needs of investors come first. It’s codified in law. These petite landlords receive very generous tax relief for owning an over levered slum empire.
For your second question, I think Gramsci’s prison letters has something about the Turin trade unionists contrasting with the communists and their theoretical path forward in relation to the Sicilian peasantry. I forget the name of the specific letter sorry. But it’s good about laying out the role of the industrialized center of the nation and what it owes to the lesser developed areas. The gist of it is that the communists, in control of the factory, should churn out equipment for the peasants and modernize them and break their feudal relations from the church and not simply stop at demanding higher wages like the trade unionists were content to do.
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examples of the state as an instrument of the current economical system
As far as states being tools wielded by either capitalists or socialists to enforce either capitalist or worker-led rule, histories of these countries provide the examples. Some US-centric examples:
examples or theory of how a socialist state with a vanguard party evolves into full communism.
The world hasn’t reached the material conditions required for the withering away of the more violent / repressive elements of the state. That said, socialist countries have lower rates of petty crime, and require less internal policing, because of better material conditions of the people brought about by social services and poverty alleviation campaigns. Cuba, China, and the DPRK have very low crime rates, despite having much less material wealth per capita than the colonialist countries. They don’t have for-profit policing, and require much less of a police presence.
Thanks. The link on Leninism is down though
K, updated link now.
