• that depends if you draw distinction between the people and the state (which is merely an abstraction of capital)

    state capitalism, as defined by lenin, is not a classless society, and is indefensible as a liberatory philosophy.

    just as liberalism abolished the monarchy only to replace it with a dictatorship of private capital, authoritarian socialism replaced monarchy with a beaurocratic ruling class and unilateral control of the means of production.

    the neck cares not the color of the boot