Shteti komunist: Dallime mes rishikimesh

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Një '''shtet komunist''' (ndonjëherë i referuar si '''shtet i punëtorëve''') është një [[Shteti|shtet]] që zakonisht administrohet dhe qeveriset nga një [[Sistemi një partiak|parti e vetme]] që përfaqëson proletariatin, të udhëhequr nga filozofia [[Marksizëm–Leninizmi|marksiste-leniniste]], me qëllim të arritjes së [[Komunizmi|komunizmit]]. Ka pasur disa raste të shteteve komuniste me proceset funksionale të pjesëmarrjes politike që përfshijnë disa organizata të tjera jo-partiake, siç janë sindikatat, komitetet e fabrikës dhe pjesëmarrja e drejtpërdrejtë demokratike.<ref>Sloan, Pat (1937). "Soviet democracy".</ref><ref>Farber, Samuel (1992). "Before Stalinism: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy</ref><ref>Getzler, Israel (2002). "Kronstadt 1917-1921: the fate of a Soviet democracy". Cambridge University Press.</ref><ref>Webb, Sidney; Beatrice Webb (1935). "Soviet communism: a new civilisation?".</ref><ref>Busky, Donald F. (July 20, 2000). ''Democratic Socialism: A Global Survey''. Praeger. p. 9. <nowiki>ISBN 978-0275968861</nowiki>. <q>In a modern sense of the word, communism refers to the ideology of Marxism-Leninism</q></ref> Termi "shtet komunist" përdoret nga historianët perëndimorë, shkencëtarët politikë dhe mediat për t'iu referuar këtyre vendeve. Megjithatë, në kundërshtim me përdorimin perëndimor, këto shtete nuk e përshkruajnë veten si "komunistë" dhe as nuk pretendojnë se kanë arritur komunizmin; ata i referohen vetes si [[Shteti Socialist|shtete socialiste]] ose shtete të punëtorëve që janë në procesin e ndërtimit të [[Socializmi|socializmit]].<ref>Wilczynski, J. (2008). ''The Economics of Socialism after World War Two: 1945-1990''. Aldine Transaction. p. 21. <nowiki>ISBN 978-0202362281</nowiki>. <q>Contrary to Western usage, these countries describe themselves as ‘Socialist’ (not ‘Communist’). The second stage (Marx’s ‘higher phase’), or ‘Communism’ is to be marked by an age of plenty, distribution according to needs (not work), the absence of money and the market mechanism, the disappearance of the last vestiges of capitalism and the ultimate ‘whithering away of the state.</q></ref><ref>Steele, David Ramsay (September 1999). ''From Marx to Mises: Post Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation''. Open Court. p. 45. <nowiki>ISBN 978-0875484495</nowiki>. <q>Among Western journalists the term ‘Communist’ came to refer exclusively to regimes and movements associated with the Communist International and its offspring: regimes which insisted that they were not communist but socialist, and movements which were barely communist in any sense at all.</q></ref><ref>Rosser, Mariana V. and J Barkley Jr. (July 23, 2003). ''Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy''. MIT Press. p. 14. <nowiki>ISBN 978-0262182348</nowiki>. <q>Ironically, the ideological father of communism, Karl Marx, claimed that communism entailed the withering away of the state. The dictatorship of the proletariat was to be a strictly temporary phenomenon. Well aware of this, the Soviet Communists never claimed to have achieved communism, always labeling their own system socialist rather than communist and viewing their system as in transition to communism.</q></ref><ref>Williams, Raymond (1983). "Socialism". ''Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society, revised edition''. Oxford University Press. p. 289. <nowiki>ISBN 0-19-520469-7</nowiki>. <q>The decisive distinction between socialist and communist, as in one sense these terms are now ordinarily used, came with the renaming, in 1918, of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) as the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). From that time on, a distinction of socialist from communist, often with supporting definitions such as social democrat or democratic socialist, became widely current, although it is significant that all communist parties, in line with earlier usage, continued to describe themselves as socialist and dedicated to socialism.</q></ref>