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this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2024
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I think a lot of the disagreement here stems from the current circumstances vs the ideal. Or reality vs expectations, if you will.
IDEALLY there wouldn't be a state. But in practice there must be an organizing body. Sure, the workers can own and control everything themselves, but imagine how hard it must be to organize this ad-hoc for and with everyone. So from a managerial perspective, the state still has a function.
Sidenote: IDEALLY, the society would be without money as well, at least according to Lenin, but he quickly learned that this too presented practical problems to the point where it was simply easier to keep money around.
Note, I'm not a communist, I am just roughly explaining communism as I understand it in the context of the question, as neutrally as I can.
EDIT: Also see that other persons comment about Vanguardism, as that is also an important aspect of difference between the ideal and the practical.
You're a bit confused about the Marxist notion of the State, understandably if you aren't a Marxist. For Marx, the state is the aspect of government that entrenches and enforces class distinctions, ergo once all property is public there are no classes, and thus no state, despite a government remaining. Per Engels:
Additionally, money can only be abolished once an economy has fully socialized, at no point in the USSR's history was that feasible. They even tried to move to a labor voucher system, but lacked the computerized means to make it truly practical.