Because the state exists as long as classes exist, and classes will continue to exist until production and distribution is fully collectivized. This requires highly advanced productive forces and the full conquest of political power by the working classes, which is a far way off.
Sure? Communism is a post-socialist mode of production and distribution characterized by fully collectivized means of production and distribution. It’s stateless, classless, and moneyless. Socialism is immediate and already exists, and thus is the next step.
Why do we need a state?
Because the state exists as long as classes exist, and classes will continue to exist until production and distribution is fully collectivized. This requires highly advanced productive forces and the full conquest of political power by the working classes, which is a far way off.
That’s coherent and very possibly true but from where I am sitting Communism is just as far off as the end of the global order of statehoods.
Sure? Communism is a post-socialist mode of production and distribution characterized by fully collectivized means of production and distribution. It’s stateless, classless, and moneyless. Socialism is immediate and already exists, and thus is the next step.
To resolve conflicts between the classes, the employers vs the employees