Marxism sucks but so does monopolist financial Capitalism. Financial Capitalism may be even worse at the extremes.

Marxism at least is supposed to treat all people well, whether it does or not is a different matter, but the aim is to do people good. Financial Capitalism doesn’t even pretend to treat people well it only cares about profits.

I don’t think it is at all accidental.

Marxism may have been conceived as an ideal, but it was rapidly taken up as something quite different than it was conceived as.

Note the way the Soviets aped the nobility; all that they did was replace them with a new nomenklatura, precisely as every socialist revolution has done. It is the mere replacement of one exploiter with another–Look at Venezuela, and how Chavez has a daughter who is the wealthiest woman in Venezuela if not the entire continent of South America.

You have to analyze Marxism and Socialism not as political ideologies, but cons. Massive, massive con games, which end in the bust-out of whatever legitimate nation-state that they can overtake. The criminal class is brought within the Revolution, then take it over, hollow it out, and turn it all to their own benefit. Lenin begat Stalin, and Stalin was merely a more effective criminal. It’s why most of these “revolutionary movements” start out as organized criminal enterprises, and end as entrenched aristocracies like the one in China. Even today, the new nobility of the former Soviet Union have benefits, being the ones who became the looters of the stolen public property underlying their fortunes.

Don’t analyze Marxism, Socialism, or the Democratic Party as political movements. Instead, examine them in terms of confidence games and criminal enterprises. It renders things with a lot more clarity.

It is a return to an even more primitive conception of power. Primitivism to con intellectuals.

The power that it offers is not surprising that attracts very bad people.

There’s a reason so many of the men on the left are rapists and exploiters of women; that’s where the women are. Socialism/Marxism is a uniquely attractive idea to women, who want to be cared for. And, like working with children attracts pedophiles, these ideologies attract exploiters who facilely ape the ideals, and then use the access to get at the women when they’re trusting and vulnerable.

This is why you see so many scumbags on the left. One, they don’t really believe in the principles they espouse, and two, they’re there like lions feeding on the easy prey that’s come down to the water hole.

Hell, doubt me? Look at the biggies like Mao. Dude was a sexual abuser for the ages, just like most of them.

I honestly can’t think of a single ascetic figure from the history of Socialism or anywhere on the left. None. There are a couple of religious figures, but even those, like Gandhi, had their convoluted little perversities. Gandhi, who liked to sleep naked with his teenage nieces… SMH.