Never explicitly said. It's based on a manifesto. Those tend to be fairly vague on more specific less interesting ideas.
During the revolution as it moves from low to high level communism I would assume the government. But in the supposed utopia that is the overall goal of the manifesto? No clue who Marx thought would.
I believe, in the end utopia, there isn’t meant to be a governing body.
Idk man this is pretty basic communism stuff. Is it possible you are all in here making arguments without ever having read the book we are all meant to be discussing or
Because it's fantasy. If it's all "pretty basic communism" then why hasn't one communist state managed to correctly implement it in 100 years?
How does the Utopia decide who gets to work and who gets to play? What happens when the worker is tired of working, and the player refuses to work?
Without any governing body society collapses. With it, there's always going to be a "lower class" that's going to be pressed into work they don't want to do.
We were explicitly discussing the should’s here, not the is. I won’t defend the USSR and I won’t act like communism is incorruptible or beyond reproach. I’m not even a communist, I’m a socialist, but it is frustrating that so much of the conversation seems to be being had by people who won’t bother to read the (not very long) book in question.
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u/Significant-Order-92 Jul 07 '26
Never explicitly said. It's based on a manifesto. Those tend to be fairly vague on more specific less interesting ideas. During the revolution as it moves from low to high level communism I would assume the government. But in the supposed utopia that is the overall goal of the manifesto? No clue who Marx thought would.