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Originally Posted by Phantom Limb
I would be willing to be part of a communist system only if we did it right and it could be guaranteed that it wouldn't get super corrupt and ****ed up down the road. I've always liked the idea of communism, but the problem is true communism has never been more than an idea. Who's to say that we won't twist communism into some sort of dictatorship as well?
You could be right though. As far as I know communism has never been adopted by a nation as educated or as wealthy as the US. I'm willing to give it a try (though the entire right will undoubtedly close their ears as soon as they hear the dirty word).
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Ah. See, this is a grave misconception. I might have erred in using the word "state" to describe it, because a truly Marxist community would have no centralized government, and absolutely no authoritarian control. Communism has been unfortunately tied inexorably to authoritarianism because revolutionary communism establishes a new sociopolitical hierarchy; communism in the purest sense is a teleological conclusion to the development of wealth (viz. freedom in Hegelian terms).
Feudalism -> Industrialism/Capitalism -> [Socialism] -> Communism