feral-conviviality replied to your post: I wrote an entire thing about the dictatorship of...
What was your position?
one that recognized the concerns and even admitted that if political power was useful, we'd have to use it. but I then argued that (a) making the state accountable to the proletariat is a fools errand, referring to Robert Michel's Iron Law of Oligarchy and R.A Wilson's Celine's Law about communication. then I argued that (b) after a while, Organizations create vested interests that lead them to seek to preserve themselves rather than preform their function. when there are almost no classes, the government can't make sense of itself anymore, and seeks to re-institute a class society in order to preserve it's own system of privilege. We've seen a lot of "socialist" or "social democratic" states move toward Neo-liberalism, my own country included, and I think it's inevitable that after a time of relative state secured equality, the state is going to want to secure it's own continued existence by "privatizing" it's functions, neoliberal style. hope that made sense. it's just a really sitty version of my o- p.