Revolutionary Communist Party

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I was under the impression that this entity was a trot outfit. It certainly seems to draw inspiration from people like Trotsky and Lenin. Having come across them on the internet and not knowing much about them, I was surprised to learn they don’t advocate for a workers’ state or state capitalism. Does anybody know more precisely where they stand in relation to the SPGB?

I typed in a question in my chatbot, and this is the answer I got:

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what does the Revolutuionary Communist Party mean by communism

Here’s a clear, text‑grounded explanation of what the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) means by communism, based strictly on the content of the Facebook page you have open and the language they use there.

Because your current tab contains the RCP’s own description of its aims, that is the authoritative source for this answer. I’ll base my explanation on that material .

⭐ What the Revolutionary Communist Party means by communism
From the RCP’s own statements in your open tab, communism is defined not as a system of nationalisation or state ownership, but as a classless, stateless society in which:

private ownership of the means of production is abolished, and

nation‑states themselves are abolished.

This is explicit in the party’s description of its goals, which emphasises:

the overthrow of capitalism,

the abolition of private property, and

the abolition of nation‑states.

This is a vision of communism that aligns with the end‑state described by Marx and Engels in The German Ideology and The Communist Manifesto: a society where the state “withers away” because class antagonisms have been overcome.

It is not the Leninist transitional model of a workers’ state or dictatorship of the proletariat. The RCP’s own language points directly to the final communist form—stateless, classless, and without national borders.

⭐ Key features of communism as the RCP presents it
Based on the page you have open, the RCP’s conception includes:

1. No private property
All productive resources are held in common, not by individuals, corporations, or the state.

2. No nation‑states
The RCP explicitly calls for the abolition of nation‑states, which places it outside the tradition of parties that aim to seize state power and use it as a transitional instrument.

3. No wage labour or exploitation
Communism is framed as the end of capitalist social relations, not their management by a different ruling class.

4. Directly social production
Production is organised collectively and democratically, not through markets or state bureaucracies.

5. Internationalism
The abolition of nation‑states implies a global or transnational conception of communism, not socialism in one country.

⭐ How this differs from other communist traditions
Because the RCP rejects the idea of a transitional workers’ state, its conception of communism is closer to:

left‑communism,

council communism, or

anarchist‑communism,

than to orthodox Marxism‑Leninism.

Where Leninists argue for a workers’ state as a necessary transitional phase, the RCP’s own language points directly to the stateless phase.

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