Communism: Between Class and Classless

Abstract:

An analysis of communist society using Marxian categories of class (appropriation and distribution of surplus labor) and overdetermination (dialectics). Different forms of communism are constructed showing the richness and complexity of this kind of society. Special attention is paid to what a classless communism might look like and its differences from communisms with class structures. A nondeterminist approach is employed in which differences in power, property ownership, surplus labor production and distribution, and ideology act in diverse ways to create the contradictions, tensions, and struggles that can exist in different kinds of communisms. Differences between communism and socialism are identified, and the importance of analysis of societies such as the USSR is stressed. 22 References. AA

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