When in the course of development class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another.Marx promised an anarchistic paradise as the final form of communism. What he seemed oblivious to (or wanted to try to conceal) was the fact that dictatorships with absolute power tend to hold on to power indefinitely.
If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled by the force of circumstances to organize itself as a class; if by means of a revolution it makes itself the ruling class, and as such sweeps away by force the old conditions of production; then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.
In place of the old bourgeois society with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
The anarchy Marx promised at the end of socialism. You could be a farmer in the morning, a doctor in the afternoon, an artist in the evening. Somehow you would know how to do things at a whim that take years of experience- and everything would be “free” and given to you. Anyone who has the slightest experience in life knows this is crazy. There is more than a bit of this in Woke ideology, where you can change your sex by declaring it so. When I was a teenager I read the Communist Manifesto and laughed at most of it.
“Marx promised an anarchistic paradise as the final form of communism. What he seemed oblivious to (or wanted to try to conceal) was the fact that dictatorships with absolute power tend to hold on to power indefinitely.”
You are an all too rare person who has studied Marxism and gets it right.
The concept of Socialism existed prior to Marx & Engels failed 19th century philosophy of Marxism, but they incorporated it as the in between step used to get a Capitalist free society to a Marxist Communist society.
No nation in the history of the world has ever hit that anarchist free society of Ubermen where no government was required. And they never will.
But the Progressives say “the right people haven’t been running it yet”.
Yeah…next time will work for sure……..
I call that the “HOA Karen rule of law.”
“The proletariat” becomes the ruling class.
They are now the bourgeoisie.
And it’s turtles all the way down.