• nawapad@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    The “dictatorship of the proletariat” is just a stupid name for the transitional period. It’s not supposed to be an actual dictatorship, but unfortunately Marx was a little drama queen from time to time…

    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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      10 months ago

      No, Marx was right; there’s no way to do it without a dictatorship. There is no universe in which everyone miraculously agrees on how things should be run, and that means that coercion is necessary which in turn means that there has to be centralized and concentrated power, ie; an authoritarian dictatorship.

      The experiment has been run before and we know how it ends.

      • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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        10 months ago

        I think there is a universe where groups of people in specific regions all agree enough on how things should be run. And then, those groups have enough success to help convince other groups and regions to agree. We kind of see this happening now, with countries that have adopted Socialist policies setting examples.