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State and Revolution: Marx, Lenin, & the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
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What's So Important Is That the State Isn't Going to Exist
Social democrats want the state to play that mediating function. They're not trying to abolish capitalist social relations, just get rid of them. The only thing the state can do is be a organ of class oppression and domination. Even in those moments where there's enough space for sort of social democratic movements to maybe get some big reforms or some big electoral winds, they will be rolled back. I mean, it's a systematic rolling back of even most robust liberal reforms.
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