But having the state as an instrument of violence and compulsion seems to be the only way socialists survive. Without the blood of millions killed just for desiring freedom, they would have nothing to color their red flags.
Hence the word “ultimately”, referring to the utterly illogical claim in the Communist Manifesto that an all-powerful socialist state will somehow “wither away” once all of their stated steps towards the undefined “communism” are accomplished.
Communism is an undefined somehow-anarchistic society whose only definition is given as “an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all”, an empty description. Its theoretical state of being involves having no family, no private property, no religion and no national borders—the very things that make a society in the first place.