Yes, but for Marx, the state of society where “labor becomes life’s prime want” comes far in the future, and is brought about by a level of technical development we can’t yet even imagine. Essentially, there has to be a such an abundance of material goods that the need for coercion fades away. In the meantime – probably for centuries or millennia – there will be scarcity, and work will have to be coerced.

Funny, I thought that what happened in anarchist Spain was that the anarchists went around raping nuns and burning churches, and in general alienating the deeply religious Spanish peasantry, so that even today, it’s hard to make much headway with certain more traditional sectors of the population.