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 ## The Description
 
-Communism is, according to Marx, the state of human life follows axiomatically from the following evident truths:
+Communism is, according to Marx, the state of human life and nature which follow from these evident truths:
 - Human beings engage in activity which is volitional;
 - Which is not influenced by any desire or need;
 - And especially not a need associated with survival;
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 Marx's most revealing statement is the following:
 > "Communism as the positive transcendence of private property as human self-estrangement." - Karl Marx (Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 - Private Property and Communism)
 
-How does one normally perceive such a statement? Isn't it communism getting rid of private, for-profit mega-corporations (which otherwise enjoy ridiculous monopolies at everyone else's expense) and replacing them with state-certified production of whatever people need in appropriate quantities and with standards which solve planned obsolescence, and any other worry consumers might have currently.
+How does one normally perceive such a statement? Isn't Communism just getting rid of private, for-profit mega-corporations which otherwise enjoy ridiculous monopolies at everyone else's expense and replacing them with state-certified production of whatever people need in appropriate quantities and with standards which solve planned obsolescence, and any other worry consumers might have currently.
 
 Well, no, there is no state in Marx's formulation of communism.
 
+The whole notion of a consumer, at least as per the socialist, extends from the premise that there are roles of human life which necessarily separate people into class, with these roles causing humans to have fundamentally different qualities of life, different outlooks, different access to knowledge, different bias, and so forth. That there is a consumer follows from an assumption that some would produce and others would not. But, for Marx, the idea that some produce, beyond a temporal point of human, social and technological development and evolution, becomes a mistake which denotes a stagnation in the continuation of the process of man evolving such as to realize the type of existence which should follow from the base faculties of a human being, as differentiated from animal.
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+All humans create their life, as within the range of their capacity to conceive, have thoughts and perform actions which make the life they desire a reality. Given the fact that humans are related to one another through shared environment and their possess faculties for socialization means that humans act in the world such that they are creating a world which affects all humans at some level. Given their ability to ponder on reality, the conditions of the world, the manner in which their actions affect others, and the manner in which actions of others affect them, it is said that humans act in accordance with all other humans as a whole.
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+This means that, if we were to find a set of conditions that truly brought satisfaction to any man in life, it would be because their capacity to imagine the world they desire was unhindered by the actions of any other man, as well as the conditions of the setting being shared with other men. Some would insist that such conditions would correspond to there no longer being a state, as there would no longer be a state required to manage possible grievances or moral infractions between any two men.
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+### Withering the State
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+Both Marx and Engels wrote of the eventual dissolution of the state, as its existence would become moot and redundant given a sufficient transformation in the conditions of man and society, but it was perhaps Vladimir Lenin who formalized dialogue on that topic to a more conclusive degree. Lenin drew from the ideas and writings of Marx and Engels, and was very clear about it by basing his comments on the progression of societal change towards the elimination of state most fundamentally on reflections he made on the quotes of Marx and Engels, whom he found to have considerably different views concerning the role of the state, but whose logical conclusions can be consolidated through developing our understanding of what the concepts and their related terms, such as democracy, ultimately mean. Such semantics are not so important, however, as the main point to get across is the degree to which distinctions need to be eliminated for a true conception of liberated humanity which, according to Lenin, would be one without a state as it would be one without class distinction.
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 > "For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary." - Vladimir Lenin (The State and Revolution - The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State)
 
+>"The Communist Manifesto gives a general summary of history, which compels us to regard the state as the organ of class rule and leads us to the inevitable conclusion that the proletariat cannot overthrow the bourgeoisie without first winning political power, without attaining political supremacy, without transforming the state into the !TODO Change quotes "proletariat organized as the ruling class"; and that this proletarian state will begin to wither away immediately after its victory because the state is unnecessary and cannot exist in a society in which there are no class antagonisms." - Vladimir Lenin (The State and Revolution)
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+> "Dialectics is the theory of knowledge of (Hegel and ) Marxism. This is the aspect of the matter (it is not an aspect, but the essence of the matter)." - Lenin (Lenin’s Collected Works)
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+- State only exists both as the utilitarian function and the evidence that conflict between classes have not yet been eliminated, thus serving as the implement by which the dialectic plays out according the tension of those classes and which works to drive history forward.
+- Once the proletariat have truly attained supremacy as a ruling class, those with the power to direct the affairs of society will also be those with the consciousness necessary for man to be liberate himself.
+- Lenin believed that a transition period of dictatorial rule by the proletariat was necessary before the eventual and complete dissipation of state.
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+We see, once again, that Lenin's contributions are based on the Hegelian faith, which is to say a faith which precedes Hegel but is best understood through Hegel because of the manner in which it encompasses both the role of state as the worldly manifestation of the divine at the present moment in history as well as the belief that this fundamental phenomenon of world transformation, both as a feature of existence as well as a tool to be utilized by human consciousness, is the means by which all of reality reaches its eschatological destiny.
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 ### Pragmatic Communism?
 
 *Indeed, on the Marxists.org website, they speak of the nature of truth and actually position Communism as being close to pragmatism (except with everything's utility measured insofar as it propagates Socialism and installs Communists in power. But here, however, we're talking about the perspective of a pragmatic Communist who claims that incomplete Communism (which is also Socialism) is still Communism.*
 
 Some will retort: "Well, it's all the same: the incomplete societies are still doing communism as is first feasible, with room for change as time passes. They are still the societies that are communistic by comparison."
 
-I'm not even necessarily denying that, but the point was that it will never satisfy the capacity for a central authority to assert for or make claim to ever-greater power. The logic of the system of thinking is that private exchange of use of goods as a financial transaction, and the necessity for having such activity, estrange man - the worker, the owner, and the consumer - and that this perpetuates and becomes even more insidious with each subsequent generation which must adopt the corresponding practices (almost as a set of ritualistic practices as part of an ideology (according to Marxism)) in order to survive in the system such as it is (or even to enjoy certain benefits in an incomplete communistic society).
+I'm not even necessarily denying that, but the point was that it will never satisfy the capacity for a central authority to assert for or make a claim to ever-greater power. The logic of the system of thinking is that private exchange of use of goods as a financial transaction, and the necessity for having such activity, estrange man - the worker, the owner, and the consumer - and that this perpetuates and becomes even more insidious with each subsequent generation which must adopt the corresponding practices (almost as a set of ritualistic practices as part of an ideology (according to Marxism)) in order to survive in the system such as it is (or even to enjoy certain benefits in an incomplete communistic society).
 
-Continuing down a path and calling it communism while knowingly contradicting its principles may sound like a death blow to a communist revolutionary's thinking, but it is quite the opposite. Whenever a communist feels they must do something contradictory in order to operate to their benefit (even insofar as being able to fulfill their stated obligation - such as perpetuating communism or socialist), it becomes several things for the communist all at once:
-- evidence that they are right (look what we are forced to do)
-- a way of enjoying special privilege at your expense
-- protest against the system they hate
-- something producing tension which transforms society in their favour
+Continuing down a path and calling it Communism while knowingly contradicting its principles may sound like a death blow to a communist revolutionary's thinking, but it is quite the opposite. Whenever a communist feels they must do something contradictory in order to operate to their benefit (even insofar as being able to fulfill their stated obligation - such as perpetuating communism or socialism), it becomes several things for the communist all at once:
+- Evidence that they are right (look what we are forced to do)
+- A way of enjoying special privilege at your expense
+- Protest against the system they hate
+- Something producing tension which transforms society in their favour
   - if you are confused by it, then you are negated in the process which systematizes reason (from contradiction)
 
 ### Collectivism
 "Collectivists believe life is alienating except a world that reflects self" - Me.
 
-It's important to remember that collectivism in general as communism (more accurately Marxism - not as something which Karl Marx put forward as a domain of thought, but as a study of the logic of Marx which drove him to desire Socialism) and Fascism, function through its purveyors strongly believing that they have special insight concerning history and mankind and how humans are to transform with the knowledge of this.
+It's important to remember that collectivism in general as Communism (more accurately Marxism - not as something which Karl Marx put forward as a domain of thought, but as a study of the logic of Marx which drove him to desire Socialism) and Fascism, function through its purveyors strongly believing that they have special insight concerning history and mankind and how humans are to transform with the knowledge of this. This is a gnosis that we will explore in further depth, but for now I want to make the point that understanding this phenomenon isn't as simple as establishing that there are persons with this "gnosis" beforehand who are attracted to this philosophy, system of organization, way of understanding socialization or method of world-making. Nor is it the case that upon initiation into a practice of collectivism that one must somehow proclaim gnosis, or work to discover that they have some sort of secret knowledge before moving forward.
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+The factor of "gnosis", in this case (much to the chagrin of the angry activists themselves who like to criticize those who use the term by asserting that its only suitable use is when capitalized in reference to specific ancient cult religions) can be described as a chicken-and-egg situation whereby, at the very least, it becomes a side effect of the sort of dialectical thinking which is associated with with collectivism, though most notably in Marxism since the dialectic is itself specifically referenced. The mere act of assuming a destination which brings about the prerequisites necessary to grant a universally-accessible epistemological toolset whose legitimate use is otherwise skewed on the basis of some identity theory (such as class, or a structurally-determined material qualifier like race) necessarily obligates the assertion that one understands something that itself needn't be qualified through the universally-accessible epistemology, like logic and reason. 
 
-The difference between those who believe this and those that don't is tantamount to a genetic deficiency or racial inferiority. If the consensus decides there is a path to salvation, and some only respond with friction and resistance, then they are literally regressive, dangerous to the human race, and existing as a blight or infection.
+The epistemological distinction is perhaps the fundamental distinction between collectivist and individualist thinking, which might be better understood as a divide between dialectical faith and realism. And the consequences of contending against collectivist thinkers is indeed quite grave.
 
-This historicism is paired with the notion of praxis which drives to the same goal relentlessly while ensuring that any contradiction or obscene manifestations can be dismissed out of hand.
+For example, the difference between those who believe this and those that don't is tantamount to a genetic deficiency or racial inferiority. If the consensus decides there is a path to salvation, and some only respond with friction and resistance, then they are literally regressive, dangerous to the human race, and existing as a blight or infection.
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+This historicism is paired with the notion of praxis which drives to the same goal relentlessly while ensuring that any contradictions or obscene manifestations, such as the death of naive peasants through circumstance, can be dismissed out of hand.
 
 ### Praxis
-Praxis means we know the objective but don't ever need to provide a complete understanding of how and why. In fact, the objective itself can remain unspecified except as a vector. You are to have faith in the endpoint and understand that there's no need to find ways to express or portray the composition of that endpoint, as it can be expected that such an endpoint will become realized in tandem with the elimination of the drive or tension towards it. It promises both everything and nothing at all. It assigns final judgment to even those who are most difficult to judge.
 
-Through praxis, I peer into the soul you never even knew. The model and theory of your mind, body and soul are something beyond you, but which reveal to me your essence and true nature. Only I can understand precisely the way in which you cheat, lie to, and estrange everyone and even yourself.
+Praxis means we know the objective but don't ever need to provide a complete understanding of how and why. In fact, the objective itself can remain unspecified except as a vector. You are to have faith in the endpoint and understand that there's no need to find ways to express or portray the composition of that endpoint, as it can be expected that such an endpoint will become realized in tandem with the elimination of the drive or tension that compels any towards it. It promises both everything and nothing at all. It assigns final judgment to even those who are most difficult to judge.
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+When considering praxis through the eyes of the practitioner, they might think "I peer into the soul you never even knew. The model and theory of your mind, body and soul are something beyond you, but which reveal to me your essence and true nature. Only I can understand precisely the way in which you cheat, lie to, and estrange everyone and even yourself."
 
 With praxis, we remind the world that no theory of knowledge will be sufficient until we reorder the world. The theory is that the world must be reordered until knowledge is feasible, comprehensible and communicable. At the moment, forces of a hegemonic nature (which we know to exist as there remains oppression and inequities) are the aspect of social existence which rob people of their capacity to discern and cognize thing such as they are.
 
-With no universally applicable base of understanding and method for sense-making, the oppressor must bow to the oppressed, and those with special insight into these truths must be given the means of enforcing the transformative changes otherwise resisted by the masses.
+With no universally applicable base of understanding or method for sense-making, the oppressor must bow to the oppressed, and those with special insight into these truths must be given the means of enforcing the transformative changes otherwise resisted by the masses.
 
-Without the means of asserting other methods of logic and reason, this becomes the superordinate process. Praxis is, by definition, superordinate.
+Without the means of asserting, using and accepting methods based on logic and reason, this becomes the superordinate process. Praxis is, by definition, superordinate.
 
 ### Alternate Reality
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 If you accept any alternate theory of knowledge, even under the premise that there are biases which prevent meritocratic assessments from being carried out or, for whatever reason, you think that it will be limited by good sense, then you will be in for a rude awakening:
 **The alternate way of knowing is your negation.**