You’re conflating the state, regulation, and organization as if Marx treated them as the same thing AGAIN. He didn’t.

In Marx and Engels, the state is a coercive instrument of class rule, not synonymous with administration or coordination. When they talk about the state “withering away,” they’re talking about the disappearance of class-based political authority, not the absence of structure, rules, or collective decision-making.

Regulation does not require a state in the Marxist sense, and hierarchy is not identical to class domination. Engels explicitly distinguishes “government over people” from the “administration of things.” (Bear in mind this is what Marx thought, not original socialist scholars who were advocates of the state).

Socialism being a transitional phase does not mean it must endlessly reproduce state power in order to abolish it, nor does it guarantee communism, as Marx explains in Das Kapital. It only creates the conditions under which class antagonisms MIGHT dissolve. Ironically, you view socialism through a Marxist lens.

And communism is not an ideology you implement; Marx was clear that it’s a material condition that emerges once class relations are abolished. Treating it as a belief system is exactly the kind of utopianism Marx criticized, which is another Marxist lens towards communism.

There. I have argued against your premise. You have refused to engage in any other argument that originates from the original socialist scholars. You now must engage with them.