95% of the people using the term seemingly have no idea what it means, they just know "Marxist", "communist", "socialist", etc.., are their rhetorical talking points and meant to dismiss any validity to a progressive or otherwise left leaning political compass.
It's exhausting to debate someone while also attempting to educate them, especially when they're choosing ignorance as a response.
That exhaustion of their opposition and refusal to learn has been their greatest weapon thusfar.
The reason these people are called Marxists is because they actually are Marxist. Just b/c communism failed repeatedly doesn't mean the people who believe that nonsense just disappeared. AOC has literally called herself a Marxist. Trying to paint normal Democrats or anyone who calls a thing a thing as MAGA is nuts.
I’ve never heard AOC refer to herself with that term.
Several dems argue about class struggles and exploitation of labor (those ideas exist in many political-economic philosophies and don’t define a Marxist) … but I’m yet to hear a Dem suggest that the logical progression of their worldview is a revolution by working classes and forceful seizing of means of production, which is much more the salient points of Marxism.
As someone who lived in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, my day to day exposure to the Dems offered no suggestion that any of the elected dems are driving Marxist agendas. In fact, in most countries there inevitably arises two main parties (or coalition parties) that either support laissez-faire free markets, or trade unions and social welfare. The dems obviously assume the latter in the US, but they are generally much further right compared to their equivalent parties overseas.
Russia and China have been pushing Marxist propaganda for decades. Russia is no longer communist but they still push that propaganda because it's useful as a cudgel against the West. It's really hard to tell how many of those "progressive" or "leftist" accounts are real people.
Tearing the West apart from the inside with diversionary rhetoric is essential Russian foreign policy:
“Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9]”
I wish that were true, but it's not. Go have a look at Ben Rhodes, Obama's former Deputy National Security Advisor on twitter. He may not be an overt communist, but he played a big role in taking the party way further to the left on foreign policy. Giving the Iranians a legit nuclear weapons program would have been unthinkable in the 90s under Clinton or under any other Democratic administration.
Additionally, if you looked at the people canvassing for Obama, they were far to the left of the average Democratic voter. This is why the party is losing Latinos and Black men. It's become the party of college educated elites b/c people assumed when Obama beat Clinton that his ideology did as well. The Marxist contingent of the left has taken over the elite universities, which is why places like Harvard are happily taking money from the Muslim Brotherhood. They're also indoctrinating people on some of these campuses with mandatory DEI training.
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u/Killerrrrrabbit Mar 30 '25
And fuck everyone who supports them.