My argument is that a state apparatus could promote people who ARE ideologically committed to Marxism, who will nevertheless perpetuate the state. I think it's actually counterproductive to guess at their intentions, because it implies that the state might just wither away if they just purge any secret "cultural non-Marxists".
I think of the state like any self perpetuating system, what is useful to it's survival or reproduction will be maintained or promoted and what opposes this goal is destroyed. This is to say I don't think a state will or even can promote someone who is ideologically committed to dissolving the state at least beyond any short-term usefulness they may have to the state.
My argument is that a state apparatus could promote people who ARE ideologically committed to Marxism, who will nevertheless perpetuate the state. I think it's actually counterproductive to guess at their intentions, because it implies that the state might just wither away if they just purge any secret "cultural non-Marxists".
I can see your point.
I think of the state like any self perpetuating system, what is useful to it's survival or reproduction will be maintained or promoted and what opposes this goal is destroyed. This is to say I don't think a state will or even can promote someone who is ideologically committed to dissolving the state at least beyond any short-term usefulness they may have to the state.
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