I would tend to agree with you. What was state socialism has evolved into totalitarian dictatorship. In fairness, pretty much every state socialist regime has,

I would tend to agree with you. What was state socialism has evolved into totalitarian dictatorship. In fairness, pretty much every state socialist regime has, fairly quickly, evolved into a totalitarian dictatorship so it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. It's clear that Marx was right in the sense that societies evolve, but wrong in that state socialism evolves to communism: it clearly doesn't. It's why I find intelligent people advocating for socialism to be particularly heinous. What they are, effectively, advocating for is totalitarianism.