What I remember from Marx and/or Engels is that a sharpening of capitalism’s internal contradictions are necessary but not sufficient. Revolution is still needed. We can’t expect some automatic transition from capitalism to socialism.
Marx wasn’t a prophet. The first successful communist revolution happened in Russia under feudalism, not capitalism.
Only those that did know that you can’t vote away capitalism.
No you can’t. It collapses on the weight of its own contradictions. Any imposition of socialism without the right material conditions is doomed.
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It’s not a passive process and the arising of socialism isn’t guaranteed.