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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure Star Trek is actually full on communism given that they're a classless and moneyless society.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you are correct. though the path to that kind of communism leads through the socialist stage of development

[–] Monkeyhog 2 points 1 year ago

And ww3 and a post-atomic horror.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Right, there has to be a transitional state from society the way it is shaped by capitalism to a different kind of society that's based on communist economic relations. Incidentally, I thought this was an excellent explanation of the relationship between socialist and communist phases of development https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3228-lenin-s-three-theoretical-arguments-about-the-dictatorship-of-the-proletariat