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   𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 08:21:23 JST 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧

   @Kilowog

   That's very inaccurate to what Lenin believed, but I understand that you've only read two sections of chapter one, so you likely haven't read Lenin's full thoughts on the state. According to Marxism-Leninism, the state is primarily a tool of oppression for one class to supress and bring into subservience another class. 1/

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     𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 08:22:36 JST 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧

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     @Kilowog

     In the dictatorship of the proletariat, the state would serve the purpose of 1. Suppressing the bourgeois class and preventing counter-revolution, and 2. Introducing socialist policies, such as wealth distribution, etc, that will eventually lead to the elimination of class. Once class no longer exists, the process of the "withering away of the state" will begin, where the state that exists to serve to maintain a ruling class will progressively dissolve,... 2/3

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     𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 (radical_egocom@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 08:22:46 JST 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧

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     ...giving rise to a decentralized and true democratic society where communal self-management and cooperation replace hierarchical structures. Lenin didn't believe that the state and its forces could coexist with a classless society. He believed the opposite, that once class has been eliminated, the state would lose its relevancy and "wither away." 3/3

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     Bert Latamore (bertl@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 23:23:45 JST Bert Latamore

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     @Radical_EgoCom @Kilowog Power always corrupts. Congress critters get rich on insider trading. The advantage of enforced government is the frequent changes in government. Trump is about as bad as it gets.