So as Marxists, as I understand it, we’re supposed to consider systems like feudalism, capitalism and socialism as fundamentally transitory. I also understand that communism is different, being classless and therefore containing no contradictions that would drive any “autodynamic” or organic social change. Maybe I have a skewed understanding of our ideology, but this feels like a bold assertion. If history can be summarized as class struggle, and communism has no class struggle, is communism the end of history?
Hopefully this makes sense.
Once the final stage of communism is actually achieved, we’d still have to be careful to prevent new classes from emerging (or old classes from reappearing). Humans lived in a classless society for a very long time; we’d certainly be much better prepared than they were since they had no prior experience with class society, but it’s still a very important issue. We’d need to ensure that everyone is educated on the dangers of introducing classes and remove any risk of counterrevolutionaries causing trouble.
I actually asked one of the older comrades in my org about this. Class didn’t arise out of nowhere, so there’s certainly no reason to think it wouldn’t do so in the future, or as you said classes might reappear. A lot of liberals take that as some grand slam indictment of communism, funny enough. Yeah dude, as it turns out, no one can reliably predict what’ll happen 300 years after they’re dead.