The Unattainability of Communism

This paper aims to demonstrate that, within the theoreticalframework of Marxism itself, the communist society it posits is logicallyunattainable. The argumentative strategy adopted is a rigorousimmanent critique: suspending all external normative values, the paperaccepts the fundamental axioms of historical materialism in theirentirety and uses them as the sole instruments of deduction to examinewhether Marx’s projected transition from capitalism through socialismto communism can hold. The core argument reveals a set ofirreconcilable internal contradictions: socialist revolutions, occurringnecessarily in backward agrarian countries, inevitably give rise to acentralized authoritarian superstructure; this authoritariansuperstructure, in the innovation-driven phase of development,necessarily mutates into a fetter on the productive forces; and accordingto the laws of historical materialism, a social formation whosesuperstructure has become a fetter cannot complete the transition to ahigher stage. Marxism, by its own laws, permanently blocks thedestination it has promised. The unattainability of communism is not ahistorical regret; it is a logical necessity.