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for context: i support a cross between market socialism, welfarism and georgism under a party-union/minarchist government (a small-enough government where the political parties work with the unions). i think that minarchism is a required step in a democratic dictatorship of the proletariat.

my socialist views are therefore a fusion of libertarian market socialism and de leonism and such.

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[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Another word for council is "soviet," so in some respect you have many council communists here.

"Minarchism" and its relatives are just some of the countless attempts to depoliticize the question of governance.* It's an ideological dead end. The only democratic dictatorship of the proletariat is one that is uncompromising about the authority of the democratic will.

*Yes, I know that Marx and co. talked about the "depoliticization" of the government with the dissolution of the state, but I think this needs to be looked at as some combination of politics transforming such that many old modes of politics aren't relevant but there are new modes where politics continues (an idea Marx endorsed, saying the end of class society would not be the end of history), and to the extent that it isn't this, Marx and co. were wrong. More generously, he had some basis for supporting the idea that there would be greater unity in the popular will without classes, but critically did not say that we should cast off questions of how to govern but instead believed it would simply be easier to find agreement on the basis of common interest in the future.