Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
Incorrect - that is the nature of Stalinism/Leninism. To quote Marx (Who, surely, is worth quoting in any debate on Socialism) in the Communist Manifesto:
"The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."
Communism in its truest form is anti-Statist, as is Socialism.
Oh dear...

Marx here does not describe the communist state. 'The modern state' describes the existing bourgeois' states of his time.

You wouldn't be one of those revolutionaries who've only read the Manifesto and never (the completely unreadable) Das Kapital?


But we do need higher taxes. Starting with the Tonkin Tax, an overhaul of the WTO, and a renewed understanding that the modern state must be the executive committee for managing the common affairs of the people, instead of an instrument for plunder.
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