Anarchists
Sir, — In his letter of December 16, Ted Hicks correctly criticises B. S. Meder’s mistaken belief (December 20) that the teaching of Marx and Engels that the State would wither away, is wrong because the State can only wither away in conditions of advanced communism, which the Soviet Union has yet to achieve. Ted Hicks falls into grievous error when he claims that the Soviet Union’s socialist system is "State capitalism.” If he bases his claim on the fact that the Soviet State disposes of the country’s total social product, as a vague generalisation, he is engaging in simply playing with words, sheer semantic obfuscation, as is B. S. Meder when he contends that “Marx and Engels confused the State with a particular form of government used by capitalism.” It would be interesting to learn how B. S. Meder’s definition of the State differs from “a particular form of government used by capitalism.” — Yours, etc.,
M. CREEL. December 23, 1986.
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