Roark's Monologue (The Fountainhead)

[Edric O]

You're welcome. :)

So if I understand well, there is no state anymore.

That is correct. As long as the state exists, we have socialism; when the state is no longer needed, we have achieved communism.

So, communism eradicates the state and your system becomes anarchy. But, state is vital in your system in order to give to each, according to his need because people haven't the same ability.

Of course, there will be a period (perhaps a very long period) in which the state will be needed as a tool of the people. That's socialism.

But in communism, people organize themselves according to the principle "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". This principle cannot be enforced by the state, because you can't really measure abilities and needs. It must be done voluntarily by the people, knowing that it is in their own interest.

 

Why? Because if it is possible to have a direct politic system on a village scale (as in Ancient Greece), it is of course impossible on a country scale, because it is too vaste.

Indeed. And that's exactly why a communist "country" would look more like a loose federation of communes than a present-day country. We can't have one big commune, so we'll need to have lots of small ones linked together.

But the most strange thing is that Marx believed that communism would appear in a rich country and not in poor country (as Russian at this time).

Again, you are correct. But this is where Marx and Lenin have different opinions. Lenin argued that the process of imperialism (what we call "globalization" today) leads to a social polarization on a world scale, so that rich countries "export their poverty" to the 3rd world. In conclusion, Lenin called for revolution in poor countries, not rich ones.

But judging by the way things turned out, it appears Lenin was wrong (at least in part). While the social polarization on a world scale does obviously take place, his strategy of revolution in poor countries doesn't seem to work. Marx was right all along.