This visual aid helps demonstrate why "dictatorship of the proletariat" is such a nonsense idea.
The bourg in the blue triangle, after the rev: are they dead, totally expropriated? Then there's no more bourg, no blue, no one to dictate to.
Is there still a bourgeoisie...
The bourg in the blue triangle, after the rev: are they dead, totally expropriated? Then there's no more bourg, no blue, no one to dictate to.
Is there still a bourgeoisie...
...dominated by the State? Then capitalist relations and means of production still exist on some level and what you have is state capitalism. This is what Lenin did, it was great for economic growth, neither capitalism nor the state "withered away." This is a loss for specific...
...capitalists but a win for capitalism.
What about the red base? Are the means of subsistence communalized & alienation abolished? Then necessarily ALL the proletariat participates in the organization of society, relations are horizontal, reciprocal, there is no dictatorship.
What about the red base? Are the means of subsistence communalized & alienation abolished? Then necessarily ALL the proletariat participates in the organization of society, relations are horizontal, reciprocal, there is no dictatorship.
The dictatorship is a new pinnacle of managers that rise out of the base, justifying their authority thru class essentialism and the laughable mythology of scientific socialism. In the case of Lenin's party, none of the leadership are actually proletarian.
By monopolizing state power and the resources produced by the remaining, accelerated, and rationalized capitalist relations, the managers' dictatorship more cruelly subjugates the proletariat in their own name, for their supposed benefit.
States always concentrate power.
States always concentrate power.
The State produces and regiments the pyramidal structure visualized in the image. A liberated proletariat has no need to keep the bourgeoisie around. The idea the bourg will be subjugated by a prole dictatorship is just a left populist incitement to prole pride, a distraction...
so that the proles feel like they are in the saddle and do not see that they have a new class of rulers standing over them until it is too late.
Historically, the "transition period" is the phase in which the scientific managers become the new ruling class while they promise...
Historically, the "transition period" is the phase in which the scientific managers become the new ruling class while they promise...
the eternal proles that the State and capitalism are withering away, if they can just be patient a little longer, tighten their belts, work harder like comrade Stakhanov, inform on their neighbors, follow the law...
Those who speak favorably of a dictatorship of the proletariat are either ignorant of the entire global history of 20th century revolutions, or they are counting on forming a part of the class of managers who will rule over us. For our benefit, of course.
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