bruh you have no idea. this chick is to philosophy what deep blue is to chess and diane sawyer is to journalism. met her nearly a decade ago at revleft.com when i was still a card carrying marxist. we ended up hooking up in the opposing ideologies forum, both of us banned from the regular forums; her for her assault on their sacred philosopher ‘that wind-bag hegel’, and me for expressing fascist sentiments. sentiments i still sorta have which prevent me from carrying my card any longer. i simply cannot believe the state will ever ‘wither away’ at the end stage of a revolution, or that a revolution can be sustained without any central party dictatorship. this is what characterized me as a totalitarian communist, which might as well mean i’m a fascist. the commies wouldn’t buy it and tried to beat me up… so i was like fuck ya’ll i’m an anarchist then, and i turned in my standard issued army green cuban revolutionary uniform and bought a mad max costume. and i’ve never been back since. what the fuck was i supposed to do? these people think a government will just spontaneously organize and hold it down while three quarters of the world is trying to destroy them? that’s why mao and stalin were necessary, hombre. that stateless state marx talks about is highly unlikely to ever happen.
what i’m saying is that lenin’s vanguard party is something i think will always be necessary… so that while indeed a revolution might be generated ‘from the bottom’, it won’t hold any ground without a central proletarian dictatorship quickly materializing. and if that’s the case, it no longer matters whether or not it comes from the top or bottom; it ends up becoming the same thing… at least until every country on the planet is part of it. as long as there is an enemy still prowling the earth, a central party has to be established to oversee the fight against the parasites of capitalism and imperialism still lurking about.
this whole stateless state won’t happen until the entire planet is revolutionized.
and this will take a loooong time. capitalism/comsumerism has dumbed everyone down so much it might take another century before humanity begins to grow up and the working classes pull their brainwashed heads out of their asses.