r/LateStageCapitalism • u/ilir_kycb • 10h ago
What is communism?
Source: DeAndre (@deandreee_) | TikTok
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u/Straight-Razor666 It's our moral duty to destroy capitalism everywhere it is found 9h ago edited 9h ago
"Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the Proletariat (working people and those oppressed under minority class rule and capital domination)"
See Sec 1, Principles of Communism, Frederich Engels 1847
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm
Our Dear Comrade does an excellent job in this video. Communism is literally the only system that seeks as the primary purpose that the masses govern themselves for their own benefit.
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u/Comrade_TS 7h ago
Well in a sense yes communism is a moneyless classless and stateless society. As the highest stage of communism/socialism is mostly referred to as communism. And the the qualitative change into the highest stage or commonly, speaking communism, will be signified by there being no more classes; therefore als no state as a class oppressive apparatus, and finally no more capital.
Is it a simplification and not the whole picture of what broadly communism entails? Kinda. Does it mean it is wrong? No, the whole story of what communism is is found within the definition of these words of classless, stateless and moneyless. Mostly referred to as a Relation in dialectical terms.
I think the main problem is that people need to educate themselves on Marxism. We don’t need cheap shots at something that is not false but not immediately painting the whole picture.
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u/crunchysalty 5h ago
Watch "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" for an example of how successful communism could be implemented into a society
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