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What is the ‘withering away’ of the state?
Just as each country will find its own way to socialism along a path conditioned by historical and geographical circumstance, so, within socialism, each state will ‘wither’ in different ways, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

MOST socialists will probably have wondered at some time or other what life would be like, what form society might take, in communism.  

Most of us also realise that we’re unlikely ever to know the answer.

Socialist states, past and present, were and are just that — socialist, not communist, although communist parties have generally played an important role in achieving them.  

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