Thank you for the great response. The things that hold me back from leftist tendencies involving the state is that, for most, the requirements needed for the state to wither away will probably take quite some time and if that’s the case, what’s stopping the state from becoming a negative impact on the working class. There are plenty of things that could result in the state becoming inefficient, authoritarian (against the working class), undemocratic, etc. I don’t know if I’m failing to understand something, but I see the state as a big contingency.