#5: for power, positions of power. That is the marxist agenda, to get in office.
'See for example, Rawl's "Overlapping Consensus," p. 4, and "The Domain of the Political," p. 235. Rorty's interpretation certainly pulls the liberal system of right in this direction, but it is Gianni Vattimo who truly makes the leap and poses this connection in its strongest form. Just as Rawls does, Vattimo makes explicit the fundamental connection between the postmodern liberal notion of the State and Hobbes's Leviathan, but Vattimo confidently brings out its darker, illiberal force: "The idea that the State is primarily the police," Vattimo writes, "is hard to swallow for those who have imagined for so long a development of freedom also as a reduction of the repressive force of the State. ("Senza Polizia Non Ce Uno Stato"). The real reduction involved in the thin or minimal State of liberalism, he points out, is not a naive, leftists reduction of repressive forces, but rather "a reduction to the essential," and the essence of the State is the police: "The State....exists only and insofar as it is able to assure order." Vattimo thus makes explicit and celebrates the often unstated but nonetheless essential hinge in the relationship between the postmodern theory of weak social subjects and a thin State. The police force, even if it remains in the shadows and appears only in the final instance, is the linchpin that guarantees the order of the postmodern State.'
(Hardt and Negri, Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State Form)