A friend asked me a question about examples of the way a state functions as an instrument of the current economical system. He said he was in a discussion about the end goal of Communism (moneyless, classless, stateless) with someone that said that without a state, the ‘poorer’ regions would be oppressed by the ‘richer’ regions.
What I’m asking for is examples of the state as an instrument of the current economical system and also examples or theory of how a socialist state with a vanguard party evolves into full communism.
I have read several books about this I think but I’m also blacking out on who and what was written.
As far as states being tools wielded by either capitalists or socialists to enforce either capitalist or worker-led rule, histories of these countries provide the examples. Some US-centric examples:
The world hasn’t reached the material conditions required for the withering away of the more violent / repressive elements of the state. That said, socialist countries have lower rates of petty crime, and require less internal policing, because of better material conditions of the people brought about by social services and poverty alleviation campaigns. Cuba, China, and the DPRK have very low crime rates, despite having much less material wealth per capita than the colonialist countries. They don’t have for-profit policing, and require much less of a police presence.
Thanks. The link on Leninism is down though
K, updated link now.