marxism is an explanation for why capitalism keeps collapsing from its internal contradictions. there's no such thing as a marxist society. that would be silly. but of course everyone is marxist today. you'd have to be a rube not to be. the contradictions in the empire are heightened to a degree so self-evident that people independently reinvent marxism every day without even realizing it.
the reason everyone is marxist is, well, its true. we capitalists know it. the intelligentsia class knows it. the information class knows it. what exactly do you think "targeted advertising" is, if not class analysis? the capture by the bourgeoisie and subsequent collapse into either socialism or fascism of liberal political structures was well described by marx before even the marginal revolution.
it is an explanation for what's happened. and a playbook for what's coming. and it really boils down to that question we've been asking since Jesus Christ: socialism, or barbarism?
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