The "state" may be required.

[u/OkManufacturer8561]

Communism is a stateless, classless, moneyless, society, a utopia one may add. Unfortunately, I believe we may need the "state". Now, it ultimately depends on how one defines the "state", however if one of the key factors of the state is a military, police, armed forces, ect. I am here to state that we may require said forces to defend ourselves and expand our civilization against other species. This is unironic.

[u/OkManufacturer8561]

I asked what it is, not what it does. What is the state? What defines the state?

[u/Muuro → u/OkManufacturer8561]

As I said it's an instrument of class power. The State is defined by the oppression of one class over another.

[u/OkManufacturer8561 → u/Muuro]

How, does one class oppress the other though; is my question. How?

[u/spookyjim___ → u/OkManufacturer8561]

Through the instruments of the standing army and police forces, a whole complex system of contracts and laws upholding the bourgeois order of things, and some sort of layer of bureaucracy to manage the whole thing

[u/OkManufacturer8561 → u/spookyjim___]

Alas! My question is answered. Now, assuming we encounter a threat to our dominance in the galaxy (if we reach such a level), would the state form once again in defense against opposing species from other worlds?

[u/spookyjim___ → u/OkManufacturer8561]

I’m not going to entertain sci-fi fantasies