You are a Marxist – but don't worry

Re:You are a Marxist – but don't worry by yk on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @05:39PM (#7388581)

Marxism is a society where there is no state, so it will not structure society.

Lenin on the topic:

   It was solely against this kind of “abolition” of the state that
   Marx fought in refuting the anarchists! He did not at all oppose
   the view that the state would disappear when classes disappeared,
   or that it would be abolished when classes  were  abolished. What 
   he did oppose was the proposition that the workers should renounce
   the use of arms, organized violence, that is, the state, which is 
   to serve to "crush the resistance of the bourgeoisie".

Source: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch...

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Re:You are a Marxist – but don't worry by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @06:09PM (#7388722)

Lenin's not exactly a reliable source where it comes to describing Marx (in much the same way that the ocean is not exactly free of water), since he was trying to sell a program radically divergent from Marx's under the banner of Marxism.

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Re:You are a Marxist – but don't worry by yk on Friday March 14, 2014 @06:22AM (#7397831)

Actually I like to quote Lenin on this precisely because he is a vanguardist. So the argument is essentially, that even the driest ocean is still pretty wet.

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Re:You are a Marxist – but don't worry by Turing_Machine on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @06:22PM (#7388794)

And yet somehow this utopia never arrives. Instead, it always turns to this:

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

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