Did Karl Marxs vision of communism intend for a government to have all the power?
Marx’s vision was a classless, stateless world where people collectively worked together for the common good. I don’t believe he envisioned a massive, authoritative, centralized government, unfortunately for him, that is exactly what communism amounts to. What he envisioned was a direct democracy where every person had a vote and say in how the public goods were utilized. Somebody has to manage those resources, the means of production, and the public property. It’s ignorant to think that people with that amount of control and power aren’t eventually going to become corrupt. Communism does exactly the opposite of what Marx believed, it exacerbates the divide between classes, the “haves” and the “have nots.” It creates a small elite ruling class and a large class of people living in poverty, or at the very least, below the quality of life standards of most other countries.
