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It is not, of course, fair to blame Marx (as he sometimes is) for the authoritarian practices of the communist regimes that claim that his thinking was their inspiration, since he neither devised nor recommended them. But surely he would have had reason to appreciate that his reluctance to talk about how power is to be distributed, or exercised, in a post-capitalist society would leave gaps that could be filled with dangerously authoritarian additions. The constructive role of oppositional politics seemed to escape Marx’s attention significantly.
