u/Buh10kx

1. Do you think most people who consider themselves "Marxists" have actually read much Marx?
2. Do you consider yourself a Marxist?
3. Do you read the economics?
4. Do you go beyond volume 1 of Capital? Which?
5. Do you just run with whatever "Marxist" narratives from some tradition or other of "Marxists"?
6. Are you shooting blind with spontaneous hot takes about whatever feels "radical" at the moment to get likes and scandalize your parents?
7. Who said "All I know is that I am not a Marxist?"
8. Is there any other tradition with such a uniquely powerful theoretical base and such utterly powerless epigones?

Edit: added 1, rest of the numbers bumped down.

Steve Hall is pretty good no matter whether you agree or disagree on that take!

Class Unity says: "The Function of Making Socialism Woke is Controlled Opposition."

In the Financial Times, Janan Ganesh writes: "Socialists are in the business of winning and holding power. It could happen, if they did not keep offering economic dirigisme and identity politics as bundled software. Those who want them to lose on both counts are forever grateful."

Coincidence? Easy plagiarism?

https://classunity.org/2026/01/16/controlled-opposition-what-was-the-function-of-making-socialism-woke/

Wait, the IMF is de-developing countries? Lol

Ladies and gentlemen, learn to like the taste of boots… cuz you should be grateful for what your owners do for you when they own you!

The revolution will not not be coopted…

… and remember how Gaddafi ended up when he tried to go along all nice like with the demands of imperial managers of the vested interests.

It wasn’t a new thesis ten years ago, and yet it never gets too old to repeat… What would it mean to de-liberalize the left?

"The Green Party Leadership: A gay Jewish man, a working class Muslim man, a middle class English woman. We are literally a party of unity. We don’t see division, we only see those seeking to divide us. Ignore the media, and come and be part of the fastest growing political party in the UK."

Anything but an ordinary guy who looks like Stalin and can fix your broken stuff and make it work again! This is just the idpol identity coalition model of the democratic party (post-McGovern). Will the coalition they'll try to cobble together be able to be large and coherent enough to do anything? Of course not! That's the point... to paralyze the left everywhere.