• 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.