It's amazing how many times they have failed to implement "true communism".
On 2019-09-01 14:44, Razer wrote:
When the state withers away there's no one to report it and besides you CERTAINLY won't read about it in the NYTimes > For instance, Libya... Libya was a successful direct democracy anarcho-syndicalist dream nation. The most affluent nation in North Africa if not ALL Africa, funding development projects for any AU nation that asked (cutting western businesses entirely out of African Development for the most part...) The workers literally ran the factories and local governments? People's Assemblies. Couldn't have THAT! al-Qaeda and NATO 'fixed' it.
Bloody great posters of Qaddafi all over the place, cult of personality, and the death penalty for using US dollars rather than the worthless government money.
A paragraph in the book about abolishing money is similar to a paragraph in Frederick Engels' Principles of Communism.[10] Gaddafi wrote: "The final step is when the new socialist society reaches the stage where profit and money disappear. It is through transforming society into a fully productive society, and through reaching in production a level where the material needs of the members of society are satisfied. On that final stage, profit will automatically disappear and there will be no need for money."[11]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Book_(Muammar_Gaddafi)
And, in the course of getting there, had to raid black markets, confiscate the money people were using in the black markets, and of course confiscate the goods.