Actually, what we're seeing is the work of the Zionist corporatocracy. The left-right paradigm is designed to make you pick sides and buy into that Hegelian dialectic. I agree it's evil and does all those things - but that's not Marxism.

Here, I agree. The mainstream political spectrum is a false choice.

But in my view, it's a false choice because both sides accept some version of egalitarianism, whether of opportunity or outcome. Communism^† , being on the left of the mainstream political spectrum, believes in equality of outcome. Liberalism, being on the right of the mainstream political spectrum, believes in equality of opportunity.

Just as socialism and communism have been corrupted in many countries, capitalism has had is epic failures too. Recognize a riot in your streets as a sign and don't buy into the us vs them bullshit. Russia and China are just as capitalist as the USA and the USA is now just as communist as them. Communism was totalitarian to a degree, just as capitalism was inverted-totalitarianism to a degree but now the capitalists and communists have merged into a totalitarian corporatocracy. If Russia and China were actually in opposition then they would have called out the manufactured coronavirus scamdemic crises for the bullshit that it really is - except they are going along with it to oppress their own people too.

Agreed, communism and liberal capitalism are two sides of the same coin. They both believe in equality, and equality of opportunity is not really so different from equality of outcome. In fact, the only way to get true equality of opportunity is to equalize the conditions people grow up in, and that means heavy taxation of inherited wealth, and redistribution to children in poor families. In fact everything will be equalized until the liberal is different from a communist only by a random factor; in other words, equality of opportunity is when the mean of the expected wealth distribution is the same for everyone - the liberal just accepts the standard deviation can be positive.

False. You may be meaning communism which is a corruption of socialism with a totalitarian government controlling everything. China despite its countless flaws has come further in the last 30 years than anywhere on Earth and is about to dominate the world, including the USA (lead by Zionists) in countless ways, and in many already does.

Yes^†

It would be almost impossible for me to post so many Marxist posts without understanding anything in them.

I've seen some of Richard Wolff before, he's who comes to mind as a contemporary Marxist theorist.

The way I see it, traditional Marxist materialism has given way to a neo-Marxism that transfers the focus from the base to the superstructure of society. The communist ideal of a classless, egalitarian society remains, but dissolving cultural traditions has become the focus. This video explains it quite well.

Where I think Marxist materialists tend to go wrong is precisely where the liberals go wrong - they don't see how their ideology was unstable and gave way to the evolved form. Dialectical materialism gave way to critical theory, and liberalism to postmodernism; their bastard child intersectionality is now running the show.

If you want effective protests, you need to stop the power and control and profits of the ruling class - without violence or destruction. They have a monopoly on violence and seek any excuse to use it.

Take back the means of production and instead of working for a single boss or some executive board, work for your collective selves in a democratic worker directed enterprise, aka worker cooperative, or coop. Bring democracy, fairness, and accountability to the workplace. Work Coops are is the 3rd type of Marxist socialism they never talk about because they don't want us to know about ground up authentic democracy.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation - largest worker coop in the world - a success!

I'll be making /s/Cooperatives next week unless someone beats me to it.

Cooperatives are interesting, but again based in an idealized democracy, which is fundamentally egalitarian at its root. For this reason I think the social rot will continue to spread in a cooperative-run economy. Do these coops have "diversity and inclusion" initiatives? If they do, they've already been corrupted.

Billionaires pay millionaires to tell the middle class that the poor are the problem - and they'll tell you entire nations are the enemy, not just their exploitative "leaders". The only enemy worth fighting is the ruling class, regardless of origin.

Oh, the elites are absolutely the problem. I think it's a misunderstanding of right-wing thought to claim that rightists think "the poor are the problem". No, the right-wing position is that wealth redistribution to the poor will have bad outcomes; in the liberal capitalist's view, the incentive to work and produce will be diminished, making everyone worse off long-term, and in my view, it reinforces egalitarianism, encourages dysgenics, and ultimately dissolves culture and tradition.

† I really did mean communism before, not Marxism; I was using them as synonyms in a sloppy way.