Ok so what I am asking is how do we make sure that the party do not become revisionist and we a get another Khrushchev ? Is it with purge (the real one not just the paw paw u ded but like you think rascism is not that bad well out of the party you go) , with Gulag ? Personnaly I think if Stalin’s purge of the party would have removed Nikita (and other revisionist) well the Soviet Union might be on mars today but anyway I would like to hear your thought on the matter so thanks in advance and sorry for the English ! Edit : typo

  • @bhenck
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    35 years ago

    The point is, if a stronger empire exists out of the reach of the revolution, there is no solution to it. Hierarchic military structures will be needed to fight back against external attacks. Believing that this power can be spread equally to everyone is probably an illusion.

    During the dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e. Socialist system) the state needs to wither away to reach communism. Any state will eventually create a new class system, i.e. the people that control it vs. everybody else. If this happens the benefits of the revolution will slowly be reversed. If however, due to white terror/WW2/Cold war and to low productive forces of the society that withering process is impossible, the treat of reactionary elites in the state apparatus will always be threat and problem.

    Mao’s idea of a cultural revolution, having repeating mass mobilized revolutionary struggles against the capitalist/elitist elements within the party and state apparatus is a strategy that might work, but then again such a process could also be coopted by foreign capitalist interests.

    The easiest way would be to be in the situation of being the dominant economic and military force in the world, because then the withering process could actually begin. But yeah if this is not the case, I dont see a real perfect solution.