Adam Booth – editor of www.socialist.net – provides a Marxist analysis of the state, contrasting it against the reformist and anarchist analyses, examines the role of the state today at a time of capitalist crisis, and discusses how society and the state can be transformed in a revolutionary manner.
In this edition of Ask The Communist, leading members of the Revolutionary Communist Party answer your questions: Do communists oppose AI? What would a communist party do with the monarchy? And how do communists approach the trade unions?
The Epstein scandal has obliterated public trust in Britain’s core institutions: the monarchy, the police, Parliament, and the rest. Millions of people are even more convinced than they were before that the system is rigged, and the state is rotten to the core.
Lenin once explained that even the most ‘democratic’ states are nothing but dictatorships of capital, as long as the bankers and bosses are in control. Looking at the state of modern-day Britain, it’s clear that his words are as true as ever.