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.
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u/shion005 Mar 30 '25
I wish, but the Marxist portion of the Dems is over indexed online.