Stephen Hicks: How Failed Marxist Predictions Led to the Postmodern Left

Petty bourgeois scholars and public intellectuals in all bourgeois governments must ,with the greatest sophistry, profess their devotion to CAPITALISM , MILITARISM , and ISRAELI ZIONISM . In " OUR democracy " they never think outside the box of the TWO PARTY SYSTEM of the American plutocracy ( do not risk tenure ! ). They invariably ignore Marx's labor theory of value and pretend that the amassed wealth of the capitalist class has some morally legitimate explanation apart from the EXPLOITATION and OPPRESSION of the working class. You can be sure the scholar here will be waving the flag of American imperialism in nuclear World War III against POST-COMMUNIST Russia. The Putin regime just does not live up to high moral values of Kamala Harris or Donald Trump , or of the CIA , FBI, " Deep State " , the high moral values of our ALL -AMERICAN ruling class ( presently dominated by fans of the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu in APARTHEID Israel and of the warmonger embezzler V. Zelensky in Ukraine) . The American petty bourgeoisie must settle for some political ideology that can at least live with " It Can't Happen Here " American FASCISM. The jackass mistakes of the " FAR LEFT " of the Democratic Party - the WOKE nonsense like " Critical Race Theory " in no way follow from the ABCs of traditional Marxism ( embraced by Lenin and Trotsky in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Czarist Russia ). American journalist John Reed wrote about this world inspiring event in " Ten Days That Shook The World " . NOTE : How many working class and sinking middle class Americans presently are thinking happy thoughts about " the beauty of capitalism ".