Authleft would prefer Stalinallee.

If I remember correctly, Marx was clear that the size of a government under communism (rather than corrupted dictatorship of the proletariat as in the Soviet Union etc) would be much smaller than anything achievable under capitalism. Based on what I read, this made sense.

Places like China, that apparently still call themselves ‘communist’ have been authoritarian state capitalism for decades.

But whatever, I guess it is many decades too late to matter, if it ever mattered at all.

The dictatorship of the proletariat is the transitional phase from a capitalist to a communist economy, whereby the post-revolutionary state seizes the means of production, mandates the implementation of direct elections on behalf of and within the confines of the ruling proletarian state party, and institutes elected …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat