Eric Dorkin wrote: Help me out here, and I am not being a smart ass. But, isn't the point behind "marxism" that it is inevitable? And if so, isn;t the issue a matter or "when," not "if?"
No. Ever heard the phrase "socialism or barbarism," or from the Communist Manifesto: "mutual ruin of the contending classes." Or Gramsci, "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." Capitalism was itself not inevitable: the assumption that it is/was is derivative from the metaphysical concept of Progress, a core bourgeois illusion.
Carrol