Marxists believe in dialectics. In essence, contridictions are inherent and change comes about as the contridictions are resolved.
As the contridictions are resolved, as has happened in past systems, we expect a widening of democracy and better conditions.
Will there be a point where all contridictions are resolved? We don’t know for certain, but the path toward that point improves peoples lives and liberates people from their current state of exploitation and oppression
The socialist project is not to just solve economic inequality and then call it a day. In fact, and once again because or ideology is based on dialectics, we understand that to work toward economic equality you must also work toward political equality. Working out these things is a process of “resolving the contridictions” within our class relationships. The aim of this is a classless society, which would mean all contridictions have been resolved and class struggle ends
The Revolution is not an event. It is an ongoing process. Its is not a singular event exactly like you say. We already believe that. “The witheting away of the state” is component of Marxist-Leninidt thought. The Revolution is the ongoing process where as i said earlier, we contnue to resolve the contridictions
The beginnings of capitalism may go back as far as the 1300s. The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, which documents this new semi global mercantile system goes to 1533. There was encirclements that began shortly after until much of the land in europe had become private property.
The English capitalists had their revolution/civil war from 1640-1660, supplanting the power of the monarchy, the French and the american revolutions near the end of the 1700s. These were the big capitalist revolutions. They happened at the end of hundreds of years of development, struggle, change, etc.,
When we talk about socialist revolution we aren’t talking about a war, we are talking about the replacement of a whole system of social relations. There are wars fought, and uprisings and all sorts of historic struggle and conflict. But those aren’t the revolution we are referring to.
A socialist society widens democracy to accommodate for this.
The following is from a Marxist Leninist perspective - other socialist tendencies are available:
For MLs we want to maintain state power in order to defend against hostile capitalist states and internal counter revolutionaries. Lenin describes this as a state, but not a state. He views the state as smashed as power transfers from the bourgeois to the proletariat.
The class enemy being put down, state power no longer is used to oppress the proletariat. The democractic process can be used after this point to deal with the remaining/new contridictions that exist/arise.
The reason why liberal democracy cannot provide the same thing for the proletariat is because liberal democracy is designed for and controled by the bourgeois to enact their oppression upon the proletariat.
The revolution isn’t a singular event, but its also not a succession of violent conflicts. The class enemy being eradicated means true democratic process can exist
Marxists believe in dialectics. In essence, contridictions are inherent and change comes about as the contridictions are resolved.
As the contridictions are resolved, as has happened in past systems, we expect a widening of democracy and better conditions.
Will there be a point where all contridictions are resolved? We don’t know for certain, but the path toward that point improves peoples lives and liberates people from their current state of exploitation and oppression
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The socialist project is not to just solve economic inequality and then call it a day. In fact, and once again because or ideology is based on dialectics, we understand that to work toward economic equality you must also work toward political equality. Working out these things is a process of “resolving the contridictions” within our class relationships. The aim of this is a classless society, which would mean all contridictions have been resolved and class struggle ends
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The Revolution is not an event. It is an ongoing process. Its is not a singular event exactly like you say. We already believe that. “The witheting away of the state” is component of Marxist-Leninidt thought. The Revolution is the ongoing process where as i said earlier, we contnue to resolve the contridictions
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The beginnings of capitalism may go back as far as the 1300s. The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, which documents this new semi global mercantile system goes to 1533. There was encirclements that began shortly after until much of the land in europe had become private property.
The English capitalists had their revolution/civil war from 1640-1660, supplanting the power of the monarchy, the French and the american revolutions near the end of the 1700s. These were the big capitalist revolutions. They happened at the end of hundreds of years of development, struggle, change, etc.,
When we talk about socialist revolution we aren’t talking about a war, we are talking about the replacement of a whole system of social relations. There are wars fought, and uprisings and all sorts of historic struggle and conflict. But those aren’t the revolution we are referring to.
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Hmmmm seems like you’re not actually interested in what Engels was trying to say
They are messing with you. That and you are hamming it up a little. Its young people on the internet who read history, relax.
Google Victor Jara
A socialist society widens democracy to accommodate for this.
The following is from a Marxist Leninist perspective - other socialist tendencies are available:
For MLs we want to maintain state power in order to defend against hostile capitalist states and internal counter revolutionaries. Lenin describes this as a state, but not a state. He views the state as smashed as power transfers from the bourgeois to the proletariat.
The class enemy being put down, state power no longer is used to oppress the proletariat. The democractic process can be used after this point to deal with the remaining/new contridictions that exist/arise.
The reason why liberal democracy cannot provide the same thing for the proletariat is because liberal democracy is designed for and controled by the bourgeois to enact their oppression upon the proletariat.
The revolution isn’t a singular event, but its also not a succession of violent conflicts. The class enemy being eradicated means true democratic process can exist
I agree. We need a significant, worker led, social, uprising. A Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution if you will.
I am not memeing here. Read some Maoist stuff, you might actually tend towards that