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Hmm, anyone remember what the title of the first Metallica album was? I feel like it's relevant to these gentlemen.

Sorry, but 'lifetime b*tch' (dumbarse language filter) was straight 🔥

Got a girlfriend... also I'm sorta the tomboy out of us. Am also English... England removed. No regerts.

Hail satan, comrade. 🤘

Hey, don't insult Satan like that.

there is, made in China and it kicks ass. (It's available to watch on youtube, or was anyway when I watched it)

Then those two people will have to create a minimum of 3 (three) new parties with progressively longer and more obtuse names and spend the next 20 years hurling bitter recriminations at the other parties (and their own party once that one inevitably splits at its inaugural meeting).

Yes and that's based.

Post Hog.

Lot of Nazi fans popping in from other instances I guess.

Indeed, the strains that want something slightly more realistic (like worker co-ops) are a lot easier to speak to. As you say they tend to lack a practical means of implementing their desired society, or if they have ideas, they seem to just 'reinvent' MLism with different terminology (cue the Engels quote).

In Marxist terms, the state is a tool of class oppression, it is the machinery by which one class imposes its will on all others. Under capitalism (or rather, under a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (DotB), like e.g. the US, UK, France, Brazil, etc.) it is the bourgeois class who controls the state and uses it to oppress the proletariat (and any remnants of prior classes like the peasantry). In a dictatorship of the proletariat (DotP), that structure is inverted and the proletariat uses the state to oppress the bourgeoisie (and any remnants of say, aristocracy or whatever).

The idea is that in a DotP, the bourgeoisie will eventually become proletarianized and, after a long enough period when there are no more bourgeoisie, there will be no more proletariat (as classes are defined in terms of the conflict between them). Without a class system, there will be no longer any reason for the state - as that tool of class oppression to exist. All that will be left in terms of governance, will be the administration of things. You still need to manage healthcare, housing, transport, etc.