>>2936528You are wrong. Being "tough on crime" is incompatible with the theory of scientific socialism, because the state does not stand above social classes; rather, it is an instrument used by one social class to oppress another. For a communist revolution to overthrow the bourgeois state and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat, actions deemed "crimes" by the bourgeois state will be necessary—and such state repression would inevitably be directed against communists and workers. Therefore, the bourgeois state must never be granted the power to repress. Instead, the militias of the workers' self-defense committees must employ whatever force is required to consolidate the supremacy of the proletariat and suppress counter-revolutionaries, liberals, reactionaries, lackeys of imperialism, opportunists, and those who advocate for class conciliation—while also preparing for the re-education of enemies to encourage their surrender and demoralization.
The state is an instrument through which one class oppresses another, because a class-based society is characterized by irreconcilable antagonisms between property owners—both against one another and against those who lack property—which inevitably lead to conflict. For this reason, an entity separate from and alienated from this society emerges to provide a certain hypocritical “order” that maintains the ruling classes in power within a class-based society.
The industrial reserve army is necessary for capitalists to intensify the exploitation of workers; otherwise, instability and a decline in profit rates will occur, hindering the accumulation of capital in a capitalist system within a bourgeois state.
The state is not a neutral entity and it cannot have any opportunity to subdue the workers. Scientific socialism and revolutionary socialism are incompatible with any demand to empower the bourgeois state to repress the workers and take away their independence so that the proletarian class cannot organize, arm itself, and seize power to disarm the bourgeois class and its agents.
I will begin with excerpts from the political program of Marx and Engels that demonstrate this position and outline some points regarding how to combat the problem of the industrial reserve army of workers:
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