"Of course it’s a state and eventually needs to be abolished"
I'm like a 'tankiddie', haven't read nearly enough. But I feel like this whole "state needs to be abolished" thing easily conflates nationalism and having a government.
I oppose nationalism, and a utopian society would have open borders; but at no point could I say that government should be abolished, at most it could be decentralized.
To me, land without government is just a power vacuum. If "abolish the state" means abolish the nation state, then sure, abolish it.
I think people should be more precise when they say "abolish the state"; because I don't even know what it means, and I actually try listening to anarchists sometimes.
I could be wrong, but I think everyone, from communists to anarchists, believe that, under communism, once the state has gone, we'll still need governance, just not via a state--ie. one decision-making body, separate from the people, that has a monopoly on violence and makes laws and enforces them through coercion, etc.
You'll still need town councils and federated governance and, like, a train gang to keep the trains running and all that good stuff. It's hard to specifically prefigure, but it'll still all be organized :) after all, even MLs say it's just socialism until 'the state withers away' into communism, which is only pedantically different from 'abolish the state' :)
I'm like a 'tankiddie', haven't read nearly enough. But I feel like this whole "state needs to be abolished" thing easily conflates nationalism and having a government.
I oppose nationalism, and a utopian society would have open borders; but at no point could I say that government should be abolished, at most it could be decentralized.
To me, land without government is just a power vacuum. If "abolish the state" means abolish the nation state, then sure, abolish it.
I think people should be more precise when they say "abolish the state"; because I don't even know what it means, and I actually try listening to anarchists sometimes.
I could be wrong, but I think everyone, from communists to anarchists, believe that, under communism, once the state has gone, we'll still need governance, just not via a state--ie. one decision-making body, separate from the people, that has a monopoly on violence and makes laws and enforces them through coercion, etc.
You'll still need town councils and federated governance and, like, a train gang to keep the trains running and all that good stuff. It's hard to specifically prefigure, but it'll still all be organized :) after all, even MLs say it's just socialism until 'the state withers away' into communism, which is only pedantically different from 'abolish the state' :)