this is the argument most responsible for why i don't consider myself a marxist. i think believing this is essential to marxism, and it is disingenuous to call yourself a marxist otherwise. https://twitter.com/generalityiii/status/1266547773744259074

in the past year or so i've come around on historical materialism, not just as a means of analyzing the past but also as a method of planning for the future. but the end goal of marxism is pretty clear, and i don't believe in it.

oh he deleted the tweet so this thread doesn't make much sense. he was talking about how marx and engels (and lenin, for that matter) repeatedly stressed that the goal of communism is the withering of the coercive/bourgeois state