Just realised that you wrote

April 2026 Forums General discussion The need for a transnational state Just realised that you wrote

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ALB
Keymaster

Just realised that you wrote “transnational” in the title when you meant “transitional”.Also, although we reject such terms as “transitional state”, “socialist state” and “workers state”, we are not anarchists and do envisage that the workers, once they have become socialists, should aim to win control of political power, ie of “the state”, in order to stop it being used against them and to co-ordinate the changeover to socialism and, even, to deal with any violent resistance by a pro-capitalist minority (however unlikely).The point is that, since workers already run society from top to bottom and since private property is at present guaranteed by the state, this working class control of the state need not last very long. In fact, private property in the means of production can be abolished at a stroke by simply declaring all stocks and shares and all property deeds null and void. They can then be used to make lampshades.