Originally Posted by
Himiko
Rather, Marxist Communism does espouse two governmental polities as well as the economic system. The transition socialist dictatorship, which would ultimately voluntarily give up power to make way for the true government-less Communism once the people were ready for it. The dictatorship was chosen because it was an era of autocracy Marx saw at work (most significantly the Liberal Revolutions of 1848 in France, Germany, Austria, Italy...pretty much every country in Europe except Russia, which had just been through a major rebellion twenty years earlier, and the United Kingdom, which was already ahead of the curve; this is also why he never seriously considered the possibilities of peaceful transition in a democratic system), and thus an autocracy which would provide the necessary absolutist controls over everything societal in order to mold the next generations as needed. Even so, however, it needed an era of unchanging pure capitalism, something that will not happen. Even the American system, one of the purest children of Adam Smith, contains elements of Marxism in its labour unions, wage laws, fair labour laws, and other government regulation of the economy (Ironically, Adam Smith warned strongly against allowing monopolies via a complete laisse faire system because these adversely affected the market forces he postulated on).
