State Worship as Permanent Oppression
Marxist states ballooned into monstrous bureaucracies that intensified rather than reduced state power. The Soviet Union created sprawling ministries controlling every aspect of life. North Korea’s Kim dynasty established hereditary rule, completely abandoning any pretense of temporary state power. Far from withering, the state became an end in itself, with massive security apparatuses monitoring citizens. Leaders like Stalin or Ceaușescu were deified through personality cults, something Marx would have scorned as bourgeois idolatry.
