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Do you have any theory books for the worldview you hold ? This sounds very specific
That's part of it. For sure I agree the land must be collectively owned and we must tax the land-derived economic rent, but we're kinda gonna be missing out on the other capitalists: industrialists and bankers, or more accurately banker-led rentier economy, with the assistance of industrial capital, that is finance capitalism.
We do have to crush the capitalists, especially in the international political economy of imperialism, which finance leads.
Like how Yugoslavia or like how China under Deng underwent the market socialist economy?
Idk. I don't know much countries that done that sort of thing to minimize yet maintain a state like that, at least when there's many functions beyond politics, such as economy [helping build productive forces] and military [defense against any local bourgeois resistance and likewise reactionary resistance], and to have to face off with imperialist threats, such as NATO and the World Bank.
I'd suppose only a withering of the state will only start to be seen when the whole world is under a dictaprole (dictatorship of the proletariat) and the ruling classes are mostly, if not totally gone
Generally speaking, my only benchmark for a good socialist ideology like yours is that if it was net-positive and if it had a major material effect on a contemporary nation-state [USSR] or even a small one [Paris Commune]
the vast majority of them are available for free on the internet in both text and audio formats. some are even illustrated.
there are ~~no~~ very few excuses
good thing i DIDN'T buy them - i can just download a .pdf or an audiobook of it (for free!) on the Internet
i think the state should be downsized to enforcing and administrating - small enough to handle all that, but the state should NOT be the most important thing in a government - that would be the parties working with the union. seriously!
i am not going to continue with this conversation because you have not actually engaged with anyone's good faith comments. you have only been reiterating over and over again your positions. me and other commenters have asked you questions not because we don't understand what de leonism is, but because we want you to question your beliefs.
to come back to the original question of your post, the reason why nobody on this website is de leonist is because it is not a practical ideology and does not have relation to real life organising. All actually existing socialists states come from the marxist-leninist tradition. I will also give credit to anarchists who have been able to organise on a local/regional level, even though I disagree with the potential scalability.
This is why one of the first things I ever replied to you was to join any socialist (or even better, communist) organisation if you want to improve your understanding of socialist practice, and then you can form an opinion based on that. not based on a random collection of wikipedia articles.
i hope i have been clear enough
i would join a socialist organization, but i CAN'T go outside without permission, and i CAN'T find any socialist organization that's entirely online-only - the closest i've gotten is signing up for newsletters, sorry.
instead, i'm looking for any socialist books from any perspective (marx, lenin, stalin, trotsky, de leon, bernstein, luxembourg, anyone!). if you have any recs, please let me know. seriously!
If you want a reading list, here is the best one you’ll find https://hexbear.net/post/3881322