I just discovered that Radical Reviewer believes the western account of the 1932 Ukranian famine, and I could not be more disappointed.
I just discovered that Radical Reviewer believes the western account of the 1932 Ukranian famine, and I could not be more disappointed.
I think in the event of something as monumental of scope as the Russian revolution actually happening in the future, it should IMO, at first at the least be tolerated and some form of mutual agreement should always be possible, and once there is no more immediate danger new forms of stateless societies should even be encouraged to also explore ways for the future when even the ML state might begin to wither away.
The question to me is only if any state ever will let itself wither away or if that will turn out never actually to happen because the bureaucracy that operates said state, and profits from holding these elevated positions within society, will always try to maintain that order?
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It is possible to build institutions that are designed with trust and accountability in mind.
We are not familiar with these institutional principles because the only context from our lived experience is from institutions that were never designed to serve us in the first place.
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Even though I have to say I'm not quite sure where I really stand between the Anarchist and ML ideas at this moment, having only recently begun reading Anarchist theory, but I would say, even if my understanding of it is still relatively basic, it would be preferable not having to find that out if those bureaucrats have formed their own class again or not in the first place.
But anyways, any movement that overthrows capitalism and private property and establishes a new society formed on socialist principles, sign me up for that.
Sorry, I unfortunately don't have the time to think more about this and come up with a better response right now, it is late, I really need to go to bed.
You know, gotta work, work, work. lol
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The condition for the state withering away is the end of class conflict. The state is merely an instrument of class conflict, through which one class exerts its will and dominance over the other. So long as there is a capitalist class anywhere in the world that is organized militarily and is capable of re-asserting itself as a dominant geopolitical force, then the conditions that necessitate a proletarian state still exist and the withering away of that state would be premature.