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Yes, Janine, we reject capitalism, because we are tired of having so many of us being impoverished despite our long hours of hard work and subject to inability to acquire necessities, let alone psychologically necessary recreation, while a few inherit an obscene amount of access to the social wealth that we the workers collectively create. Technology has advanced to the point that class divisions and extreme material inequality is no longer necessary, and has now become destructive to the planet itself.

Considering all of the pro-capitalist rhetoric and misrepresentation of Marxism spewed by the privately/corporate owned media, it's frankly strange to accuse anti-capitalists of being the brainwashed ones. And I don't mean that as an insult, but simply an observation.

Marxism has not been implemented improperly, it has not been implemented at all. Certainly nothing remotely resembling the classless, moneyless, stateless system formulated by Marx and Engels, since they were quite clear that such a system required an advanced industrial base, something 1917 Russia and the many small developing nations purporting to establish "socialism" et al did not have.

As for anti-historical propaganda absorption, I think defenders of capitalism deliberately put blinders on to ignore the mass of homeless people, the numerous workers struggling paycheck to paycheck while sometimes working three different jobs, going into massive debt or bankruptcy due to medical problems, and the festering slums that our inner cities have been reduced to when we have reached the technological capacity to produce an abundance for all and try to say that capitalism remains a good or remotely progressive system.

And college professors who promote "wokeism" do not promote "Marxism" as described by Marx & Engels, but "Marxism" in name only. They claim to dislike capitalism, yet the corporations *love* the SJWs and do everything they can to promote their agenda of Extreme Left identity politics because it keeps workers fighting amongst themselves, fosters competition that the system thrives on, and diverts workers from class unity by besmirching and misrepresenting the system actually described by Marx & Engels.

Aug 9, 2022
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