what violent means are you thinking of that socialists advocating for to wither away the state?

I would add to the list of things that government can do: to make sure that tools, technology and scientific discoveries are deployed in the service of people rather than the service of corporations

perhaps one may say that people will do this themselves of their own volitiion and that there is no need for governance

but I find that these transformations come in cyclical patterns and periods where governance is needed over commons can be replaced by periods where commons can be managed in self-organized manners

for example, most electricity infrastructure in european countries is centrally built and managed, so in a shift to more decentralized grids we inevitably pass through a necessary period of governance of these commons.