the assertions from anarchists and social democrats that we need to build a more utopian future out of our current apex
This is mixing and matching. Anarchists align with engaging in prefigurative politics (something Marxists and others smear as "utopian"); social democrats align with building out of the most robust economies and electoral systems. These are not really compatible with each other.
The main commonality between anarchist and demsoc politics is the sense of being able to tangibly move forward incrementally both in the present moment before the revolutionary "threshold", and afterwards too.
This is mixing and matching. Anarchists align with engaging in prefigurative politics (something Marxists and others smear as "utopian"); social democrats align with building out of the most robust economies and electoral systems. These are not really compatible with each other.
The main commonality between anarchist and demsoc politics is the sense of being able to tangibly move forward incrementally both in the present moment before the revolutionary "threshold", and afterwards too.