Nothing, it's technically true. It doesn't tell the whole story, but it's technically true.
See broadband, communist (see also home-schooling; pandemic; pretending to care about under-served communities because you really want to go to the pub)Isn't this precisely what right-wing nutjobs say every damn time a group of opposing politicians try to help their struggling citizens? It is! It is what they say every damn time.
Fair, we are entering into my opinion on what constitutes real communism here so I won't push that particular
Strongly disagree with Engels there.
You say that like I care enough about the existence of so deplorable an entity as a nation to be offended by that.
Well yeah same, like I said the idea that the state will just play itself out once it's time is up is historically never what happens when people are given undue power. It was mostly just to highlight the communist ideal of statelessness.
Something that books have been written on and can be hard to sum up succinctly in a forum post between working sets. Any more specific questions?
A class is a group of people that share a position in society. So, for example, a society might have lords and serfs. The lords (or perhaps more precisely the nobility) are a class. The serfs are a class. For Marx, classes tend to (try to) act in their own interests (at least eventually), and they do so in opposition to other classes; those other classes have opposing interests. This is called class antagonism or class struggle. To be clear, for Marx, this antagonism is a defining characteristic of social classes. A peasant revolt that demands the cancellation of all debts and a redistribution of the land is an example of class struggle. And so is the use of debt and property ownership to control the peasantry. Of course there is the familiar analysis of the proletariat and bourgeoisie; the bourgeoisie struggles to maintain its power over the proletariat while the proletariat struggles to survive, improve its lot, coordinate with each other, and overthrow the control of the bourgeoisie.
I'd fully agree with you about North Korea & China. Not specifically because they have governments, but because they're so rigidly hierarchical, totalitarian and anti-egalitarian, that they cannot be considered to be following any recognisable socialist/communist doctrine.
The very obvious reply here is that the $2000 is promised to (more or less) everyone, not just voters, and more precisely, not just voters for Democrats in the Georgia special elections. If this counts, so does every campaign promise that would result in an expenditure that for any reason reaches any number of people who can vote.
Engels kinda sucked ass and misunderstood Marx’s definition of the state and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. It’s almost like he wanted to be everything Bakunin accused Marx of being aside from a scheming Jew.
I don't know about classless since it seems like we don't have the same ridged class structure we had in the past with serfs and such. I mean you could argue that upper middle and lower classes based on income would fit but, still seems messy compared to what it was.
You guys seem to have this great grand idea in your heads of the ultimately communist society, if you can't even spell it out then its doomed to fail.
Some people own productive assets and needn't work at all; whether through the magic of the stock market or more directly, they can simply have others do the work for them while they reap the reward. The most successful (at utilizing that exploitative relationship) among these people rapidly concentrate the wealth of society into their own hands.
I’m not spelling it out to you because you’re a rich white dude that I’ve little investment in.
Man, countless books have been written by very wordy men. It's not succinct and it's not simple. Asking a French Revolutionary to lay out their entire outline for a representative democracy and how society would function without a monarchy in a few paragraphs would be as difficult as asking us to quickly sum up how an entire society would run. Any brief description I give will have holes in it because I couldn't begin to cover everything without writing pages and pages.
Kropotkin is probably the most digestible for mr. YouTube, so I’ll second the conquest of bread rec. LibriVox even has a decent audiobook of it.
