state communists think they can destroy the state by seizing control of the state, which fails because means which are not appropriate to their ends will always fail to reach them, becoming ends in themselves
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marx himself ended up reaching the same conclusion after the paris commune, tbh. as soon as he died, tho, engels and the bolsheviks later on hid his writings, which were only made public by the soviets in the 1970s. too late, I guess?