While such a state may claim to dominate capital in the name of the worker, it usually results in a state capitalism, such as that of the former Soviet Union, that in effect blocks the development of communism as class struggle by proclaiming the end of class without bringing about the destruction of surplus value through the redistribution of wealth and power. The state becomes the capitalist by expropriating the surplus labor of the working class and exercises the function of social command in the interests of capital. True communism is the negation of capital, surplus value, and the state as we know it. Communism cannot be legislated or dynamited into existence, because it already exists as a tendency within capitalism. Thus the modern culture industry reorganizes free time and leisure into forces that serve the interests of capital and thus contribute to the reproduction of the class system.
Free time becomes work when it consolidates the social command of capital.
The overthrow of work is not the end of creative activity but the refusal to subordinate one's creative activity to the reproduction of the class system. Raymond Williams says that the hegemony is always changing, always incorporating its own opposition. The hegemony refers to the totality of our culture, which includes dominant and subordinate classes as well as gender divisions. There is constant struggle to change the hegemony, and for that reason it is in a state of constant flux. It is not a monolithic obstacle but the process of cultural change itself.