>From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>If the ruling class and its non-ruling class supporters peacefully
>accept the transition to socialism, & if everyone, uncompelled by
>state power, immediately begins to observe rules of peaceful social
>intercourse according to communist principles, the state is
>practically unnecessary. That, however, has not & will not happen.
>
>Yoshie
Which explains, in large part, why most Third World revolutionary states, under attack from US imperialism and segments of the old ruling class, constructed security apparatuses which were often repressive.
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