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Re:Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doi... by amscanne on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @10:38PM (#28229737)
You might be saying no because the comment is facetious, but the transition state being capitalism and communist bliss (communal ownership and no state) is in fact the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, which is fully centralized authority. The real trouble with communism (and arguably socialism generally) is that reducing centralized control has proven difficult in practice… similar to what happened here.
Re:Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doi... by personasdfghjkl on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:22AM (#28230292)
The DoTP isn't necessarily supposed to be centralized state authority. Marx based his DoTP off the Paris Commune, which was the furthest thing from authoritarian.
Re:Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doi... by JPLeRouzic on Thursday August 19, 2021 @02:55AM (#28231130)
> the Paris Commune, which was the furthest thing from authoritarian.

For the two months it ran, there was an organized government [0] (conseil de la Commune) which made decrees, there was an army of ~200,000 soldier [1] and there was a Jacobine police which assassinated many people (including other "Communards") without trials [2].

This radicalization in a very short time (two months) was denounced by many other "Communards" and people like Victor Hugo [3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commune_Council_(Paris)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune#National_Guard_t...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Rigault

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo#Political_life_and...

Citation:

Victor Hugo was harshly critical of the atrocities committed on both sides. On 9 April, he wrote in his diary, "In short, this Commune is as idiotic as the National Assembly is ferocious. From both sides, folly."

Yet he made a point of offering his support to members of the Commune subjected to brutal repression.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Ann%C3%A9e_terrible

Re:Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doi... by mcv on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:56PM (#28230173)
Only according to Marx. Tons of socialists strongly disagree with Marx.

But even if they agree, the proletariat is not a few people.