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American Socialism and the coming Great Leap Backwards

5 March 2019

7:29 AM

5 March 2019

7:29 AM

It was never going to be the case, even under the most perfect Marxist Communism, that the proletariat would rule the State. Marx made it perfectly clear that the Communist State, after the revolution would be ruled by the Communist Party. After the Communist State abolished all private property and had nationalised the means of production, there was still the problem of making everyone surrender their private desires for private property by re-education.

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