"With the disappearance of classes the State, too, will inevitably disappear. When organizing production anew on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers, Society will banish the whole State machine to a place which will then be the most proper one for it — to the museum of antiquities side by side with the spinning wheel and the bronze-ax." -- Herrn Eugen Duehrings Unwaelzung der WIssenschaft, Frederich Engels
[–] cT9NlRLhxlyr 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
"With the disappearance of classes the State, too, will inevitably disappear. When organizing production anew on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers, Society will banish the whole State machine to a place which will then be the most proper one for it — to the museum of antiquities side by side with the spinning wheel and the bronze-ax." -- Herrn Eugen Duehrings Unwaelzung der WIssenschaft, Frederich Engels
[–] captainstrange ago
"With the disappearance of classes the State"
Classes will never permanently vanish because classes are a symptom, not the source of the problem.
Humans are status-seeking animals. That leads to competition and hierarchies.
No state is better than some state, but failing that (because in the long term it's impossible), minimum state is better than maximum state.
I cannot nor will not ever embrace communism.
I am a pragmatist and I believe firstly in freedom. In the essential rights of the individual.
Collectivism can kiss my hairy ass.