Our classics, Marx and Engels, had theorized about post-revolutionary society. But they were always extremely careful not to go beyond what the trends in the work could take them. They barely lived the experience – very rich in any case – of the Paris Commune, which lasted only three months. Both also delved into humanity's past to condemn the idea that one could only have classist and unequal forms of society (statist).
However, this reality changed radically during the last century. There were historic revolutions that opened wide the experience of the socialist transition; who set course for the unknown.
Immense experiences of expropriation of capitalism were developed. Firstly, the greatest political-social revolution in the history of humanity, the Russian Revolution, where the working class took power with its own organisations. However, later came the bureaucratic...read more