The only classes of people who love them some Marxism these days are
a. the remnant of the old-guard oligarchic Marxists in formerly Marxist countries who want to return to power, the ones who were left out of what we now know is the natural evolution of Marxism into mafia states,
b. numbassed Western academics, quasi-academic scribblers, alleged journalists, the stupid rump of cultists who take them seriously, who would never voluntarily live under Communism as it has really existed in the real world but who maintain a ridiculous romance over it.
c. various fringe figures on the edges of declining unions, etc.
No one in the world believes that Marxism in any of its forms is credible. Even those who, though not Marxists, saw some value in Marx's critique of capitalism, would seem to be a minority as even officially Communist countries, such as China, have abandoned any pretense of anything except as one-party "peoples" dictatorships while running their economies as ultra-capitalist systems on steroids.
Any person in the United States who claims to be a member of the left who are encouraging the consideration of Marxism should be considered a tool of oligarchic fascism. The only real danger of Marxism in the United States is the danger that it will damage the left and lead suckers on the attention and thrill seeking play-left into yet another century of futility. That is the entire history of Marxism in the United States. There is literally nothing they inserted themselves into which wouldn't have been better off if they had never existed.
Marxists of the world, go soak your heads.
"The only real danger of Marxism in the United States is the danger t"hat it will damage the left and lead suckers on the attention and thrill seeking play-left into yet another century of futility."
ReplyDeleteShorter Sparky: "The Rosenbergs deserved what they got. As did all those Jewish writers who were blacklisted."
You know, you should try to expand the range of those you care about past those who share an ethnicity with you.
DeleteThe Rosenbergs should have gotten a stiff prison sentence, as I've said many times before. Though they should certainly have gotten condemnation for lying about their treason and generating decades of useless, counterproductive handwringing at such futilities as the Left Forum claiming they were innocent. They were schmucks and traitors to someone as bad and far worse than Putin, though who knows where Putin will end up before he dies in his own filth.