Can anyone succinctly explain communism? Everything I’ve read in the past said that the state owns the means of production and in practice (in real life) that seems to be the reality. However I encountered a random idiot on the Internet that claimed in communism, there is no state and it is a stateless society. I immediately rejected this idea because it was counter to what I knew about communism irl. In searching using these keywords, I came across the ideas that in communism, it does strive to be a stateless society. So which one is it? If it’s supposed to be a stateless society, why are all real-life forms of communism authoritarian in nature?
I don’t think I’m able to read people well enough from text comments to gauge whether or not they are Marxist or something else, lmao.
That’s fair! Marxists are most commonly found on Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad.ml, and Hexbear.net. Lemmy.world skews very liberal and is defederated from the latter 2, so as a consequence asking on Lemmy.world gets a very oversimplified view of Marxism.
If you want to learn about Marxism, you can check my reading list linked in my top level comment or on my profile.