I know there are comrades who can not envisage a role for state at all in any future non-capitalist society but I think you should think about this.Socialism is my choosen alternative and while many authors (even Marx) have talked about getting rid of the state I think this has been misinterpreted.
What is meant is the desolving of government, first the one party system then the no party system. The state will remain to ensure that no regression towards capitalism takes place. This state I envisiage will be more of an administrative body without the negative aspects of current states. That is its interventionist approach to peoples lives.
The state will also have to conserve sovereignty that is prevent nationalistic stances being adopted by citizens and preventing this being imposed upon them by neighbouring nations who may have denegrated.
I think that had the world became 'Socialist' around about the cold war period nations such as china and russia with very different interpretations of socialism would have become types of new imperilists.
Finally as citizens we all constitute the 'state' and leaders who assume superiority to the common man are the real threat now state as a whole.
Want to hear your views comrades, CHEERS!
