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The end goal of communism is supposed to be the elimination of government - a stateless, classless and functionally anarchist society.

Unsurprisingly no state which ever implemented communism ever took that part seriously.

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This is the end goal of one form of communism, but certainly not the end goal of communism. Many communists want a strong state and see a single party as desirable.

There's many different communist philosophies.

Indeed, makes all these discussions about communism so pointless.

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