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It's not 'an ideal'. Marx was not an idealist, nor was he a statist, nor any of the things 'anti-Marxists' seem to genuinely believe about him in spite of what he wrote. He was a Materialist philosopher, and his analyses of Capital and Socialism were descriptive, not proscriptive. He spoke of what was and predicted what would be, not how things should be: a misunderstanding caused by people not getting that the Communist Manifesto was a political pamphlet, not one of his analytical works.

Socialism is inevitable; the only choice that remains is what shape it takes and the fact that there are multiple options doesn't invalidate that the better ones haven't been tried.