>But on the left most true Marxists believe that the state will ultimately fall and socialism will give way to anarcho-syndicalism.
I’ve speculated that Marx and Engles put that bit about the State “withering away” to try to curry support from gullible anarchists. As Olog-hai said, when a state be comes as powerful as Marx’s “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”, it naturally prevents itself from ceasing to exist, or “withering away”. What do you think?
The really odd thing is that if Marxists truly believe in Historical Materialism and that communism is absolutely inevitable, then why do they advocate and scheme for it to happen? It would be as if when scientists discovered that the sun was powered by nuclear fusion they decided they had to send a rocket to the sun to make sure that it continued to fuse.
One of the arguments that Marxists use to explain why the Soviet Union and Maoist China ultimately failed is because they pushed too quickly. The were feudalistic agrarian cultures that skipped over capitalism and went straight to socialism.
Whether or not this is the case, it seems very hypocritical for them to use this argument to claim Marxisms' prior failures, but then continue to push for communism to come sooner rather than as history would "naturally" determine.
The Marxists now love to use the term "late capitalism". They are in William F. Buckley's words trying to "immanentize the eschaton". The only silver lining is that when they push too fast there is a reaction because the frog finally feels the heat and jumps out of the pot.
Let's hope a critical mass of the US population feels the heat from AOC's Marxist nonsense before it is too late.