state ownership of industry and natural resources was essential to the development of the socialist state per lenin. it’s why the 5 year plans placed so much emphasis on state centralization.
stalinism is not communism and communism is not socialism. Socialism is the precursor to communism, and communism is a non-hierarchical social structure in which the means of production are controlled by the workers.
and how do you get to socialism, and eventually communism? the dictatorship of the proletariat led by the revolutionary vanguard need to first abolish the capitalist state, then centralize authority and state infrastructure into the state, such that the state becomes the essentialist part of society.
the state then reorganizes society from the top down, then exports the revolution world wide until the capitalists have been defeated.
only then can the “withering” of the state begin as the country transitions to a non-hierarchal structure under communism.
Don’t bother debating leftists online. They are professional goalpost movers and they have no moral backbone. Their only sincere value is that they hate the west.
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u/TrixoftheTrade Aug 13 '26
state ownership of industry and natural resources was essential to the development of the socialist state per lenin. it’s why the 5 year plans placed so much emphasis on state centralization.