This is consistent with traditional Marxism which is firmly consequentialist. This is how things like purges, unelected dictatorships of the "proletariat", and terrorism are justified to Marxists. It's all about the ends. If your action achieves the ends of Marxism, it is good. If it fails to achieve the ends of Marxism then you go to gulag. The action itself is irrelevent and has no moral valuation beyond its ideological effects.
In the USSR, for example, many people were sent to Gulag for crimes such as defacing portraits or statues of Josef Stalin or other major commies. Whether the defacement was intended or not did not matter. The sentence was the same. A "tenner". The same "logic" tormented people in their work, especially technical and blue collar workers. "Oh, you won't overload the trains to meet insane production quotas? Wrecker! Ten years!" "Oh, so you overloaded the trains and they derailed, huh? Wrecker! Ten years!"
This is consistent with traditional Marxism which is firmly consequentialist. This is how things like purges, unelected dictatorships of the "proletariat", and terrorism are justified to Marxists. It's all about the ends. If your action achieves the ends of Marxism, it is good. If it fails to achieve the ends of Marxism then you go to gulag. The action itself is irrelevent and has no moral valuation beyond its ideological effects.
In the USSR, for example, many people were sent to Gulag for crimes such as defacing portraits or statues of Josef Stalin or other major commies. Whether the defacement was intended or not did not matter. The sentence was the same. A "tenner". The same "logic" tormented people in their work, especially technical and blue collar workers. "Oh, you won't overload the trains to meet insane production quotas? Wrecker! Ten years!" "Oh, so you overloaded the trains and they derailed, huh? Wrecker! Ten years!"