• invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      No, because they've made a huge fucking error and equated capital and capitalism. Capital itself is just an economic tool to be wielded, capitalism is a way that the tool is wielded against the working class.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Not under communism, but expropriation of capital and utilization of existing economic structures is a part of the lower stages. Marx mentioned that in the Civil War in France. He missed about the idea of the revolutionaries sizing the treasury and utilizing it to further their goals, but understood that because the commune was a truly proletarian movement they didn't concern themselves with the capital housed there because they had no use for it.

          However, the leveraging of that capital would have likely helped them maintain their power in the face of reaction. That's how most AES states have operated since.

            • geikei [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              Well in lower stage communism/socialism you by definition are not in a Dictatorship of the Bourgois so its understandable that people will call any workers post revoliutionary state construction Dictatorship of the Proletariat cause its ,as a description, true

              • NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]
                hexagon
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                3 years ago

                If you've reached the point where class no longer exists (i.e. communism), there is no proletariat for there to be a dictatorship of

                • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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                  3 years ago

                  That's not what the "lower stages of communism" as Marx used the term are though. That's what the higher stages of communism are.

                  • NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]
                    hexagon
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                    edit-2
                    3 years ago

                    Afaik Marx says that's characteristic of communism, of which the lower stage is a part. The DotP is a separate phase and still has class, a state, etc. If you can find where Marx says otherwise, please do and tell me, but from what I've read of him, this isn't the case.