• Yliaster@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Definitions don’t mean anything if they don’t represent how it functions in practice

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      20 days ago

      If it isn’t stateless, it isn’t communism in practice. The various “communist” parties have called themselves that because it was their stated end goal, not because they actually practiced the concept.

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        19 days ago

        Many MLs believe that communism ends on a stateless goal but that it requires a state to get there

        Is that not true?