The Socialist State and Communism: To the Question of the Historical Possibility of the Future

The article articulates the search for conceptually productive conjugations of the concepts of the socialist state and communist society in the context of the “history of the future”. The reasoning develops from the correlation of the fundamental provisions of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine of the withering away of the state under communism and the Soviet experience of state-building. At the same time, the main plot is built around the question of the ways and mechanisms of the transition of state socialism to “stateless” communism. The classical considerations on this issue are too strategic for practically significant social forecasts. Soviet socialism, on its “applied” side, left the question of “final” communism open. And now we can talk about the heuristic potential and logical consistency of the interpretation of the Soviet period of national history as a preparatory (and incomplete) stage in the development of a classless form of society. Despite the fact that the desired trend of denationalization, as the main visible sign of approaching communism, is practically nowhere visible throughout the Soviet project. And the collapse of the USSR completely received the opposite completely official qualification of capitalist restoration. The uncontested nature of communism as a result of the development of productive forces. By itself, it does not exclude a variety of ways of his concrete historical “coming”. Moreover, the Soviet version of the socialist state did not meet the expectations associated with it. And not only for external reasons. The impossibility of manually synchronizing the objective and subjective prerequisites of the new society programmed the socialist transformations into aberrations that turned the Soviet state from a direct, that is, the shortest, road to a bright future into a historical dead end. Although this does not imply the possibility of other, so to speak, detour options. But their search is definitely impossible without the historical identification of modernity and clarifying its relationship with the future on this basis.