Originally posted by
[email protected] 15 2004, 06:20 PM
Marx said that a communist society will be stateless
Yes he did.
but in practice he said it will be achieved through absoloute dictatorship?
What you maybe talking about is something that Marx called 'the dictatorship of the proletariat.' The theory is that capitalism cannot simply give way to communism and that there must be a transitional period. Marx called this 'the dictatorship of the proletariat' or the first stage, socialism What Marx envisiged was the working class taking control of the state and using it for the benifit of the workers, creating a dictatorship of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie, in order to pave the way for communism. The state would be used as a tool to oppress the minority class, which is the ruling class who control society, by the majority class which is the working class, who effectivly make society work. They would then organise society so that it benifited everyone. Eventually, so the theory goes, the state would no longer be needed and would "wither away."
Does that help?