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user-inactivated  ·  2494 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Spurious Scandal of ‘Communism for Kids’

I have read the book. It was trying to do what the translator says it was trying to do. It fails.

Part of the definition of communism is the absence of a state. Marxism-Leninism was about the party taking over the state, creating a socialist society, and then doing away with the state, at which point you'd have communism. So there were states run by communists, but there has never been communism. That said, there's a reason you see more anarchists than tankies now, and why they're strident about prefigurative politics.