What is your opinion about Marxism?

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62. Social democracies are absolutely reformist Marxism.

Do you think that nothing is Marxism unless it subverts the capitalist state by way of radical worker revolution and the total abolition of capital?

There are two major schools of thought within Marxism. The reformists and the revolutionaries. Both are Marxist at their core yet diverge in important principles.

Just as you've said, state control is not necessarily worker control. And worker control is not necessarily state control. You can have worker collectives with all of the underpinnings of Marxist theory which exist within a society that possesses private capital.

Is it the star-child of Marxist theory? Absolutely not. Is it perfect? Far from it. But does it structurally support an extensive amount of Marxist socio-economic theory? Absolutely. And, in my eyes and in the eyes of many others, that is still Marxism.

It isn't the kind celebrated at college pub anarchist debates. But it is Marxist, nonetheless.

Now, if you want to debate the differences between something being "Marxist" and "Marxism," that could be fruitful. And if we come to an agreement that the two are not the same, then I may change my argument.