Marx was a believer in the Frog in the Pot of water analogy. Abuse democracy to slowly move society to communist totalitarian dictatorship. Marx viewed democracy as a means to an end that is to be abandoned as soon as that end is achieved. But history shows that socialism, rather than creating a classless society, creates three classes. The wealthy ruling elite, the criminal elite and the poor. In the US the majority of the wealthy elite align themselves with the socialist far left. By the way, to Waffler, the far right is anarchy. Fascism is only slightly less left than socialism. The only difference is that Fascism allows an illusion of private ownership.