Despite his decisive primary victory and impressive campaign, many Democratic lawmakers are refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani and are spreading baseless lies and smears in the process.
  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The state is a system that reconciles class contradictions, in socialism that state resolves them in favor of the proletariat. It isn’t a distinct class.

    This is wrong, Lenin in State and Revolution precisely points out that this was Kautsky view of the state. The state is not a reconciliatory tool, it is a tool for a class to dominate the others. When we talk about a dictatorship of the proletariat we talk about seizing the state and use it to oppress the capitalist class not to reconciliate. Make the capitalist serve their historical mission of organizing and developing the productive forces but strip them off all political power.

    Another thing i would like to point out is about the withering of the state. It should be understood that the state as a tool for organizing production, is not going away, but the state as a tool of class oppression is what is going to wither away.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      I’ll be honest, I completely fucked up the wording there. Rather than “reconcile,” I meant resolve, as in when the bourgeoisie comes into conflict with the proletariat, the state will resolve it in favor of the proletariat through class oppression, hence why I said it would resolve them in favor of the proletariat. Thanks for pointing it out, I’m not a Kaustkyite I assure you.

      As far as your second paragraph, I’m in full agreement. What Engels calls the “Administration of Things” cannot be anything but an organized society, and that implies government, but with private property sublimated it will no longer have any class character and the state as such will no longer exist, as it cannot resolve class contradictions that no longer exist.

      I’ll correct my wording!