MLs and some Marxists in general think we’re too idealistic and utopian. Isn’t expecting the state to wither away by itself when it ceases to be useful pretty idealist? I really don’t understand why MLs think that would happen when it hasn’t happened at all in history.

  • anarchofloppa@lemmy.mlOP
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    4 years ago

    Thank you for the great response. The things that hold me back from leftist tendencies involving the state is that, for most, the requirements needed for the state to wither away will probably take quite some time and if that’s the case, what’s stopping the state from becoming a negative impact on the working class. There are plenty of things that could result in the state becoming inefficient, authoritarian (against the working class), undemocratic, etc. I don’t know if I’m failing to understand something, but I see the state as a big contingency.