“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”

― Karl Marx

I've had the opposite feelings, mostly because I feel opposition must be mantled and maintained by an organization that can really punch with these things. And I dont really trust the "Left" as Bernie Sanders and AOC or Cory Booker as socialists who have married themselves to the Democratic party to adequately combat everything. Abolition of the current state of things means destroying most of al the current power structures or radicalizing them to something never seen before. We are the only ones that can do that, and we have to call ourselves Communists when we do.