This is why I don’t like this trend of labeling everyone Marxist. These leftists don’t read Marx, nobody takes him seriously. Even Lenin was a revisionist.
These Antifa whackjobs are some mutant strain of Post-Marxism that very little to do with the original ideas of Marx. Ironically, Marx would hate Antifa because they’re Lumpenproletariat who have always been used by the elites to attack the working class, which is exactly what is happening now. Antifa is funded by Corporate America and Wall Street to punish Main Street for supporting Trump.
As Dinesh D’sousa says how can one define Marxism without Marxists.
Antifa is an actual manifestation of Marxism, yet you want to separate the definitions of Marxism from Marxists
All Antifa happen to be is the “useful idiot” part of that; but no doubt their handlers have brainwashed them using Marx’s teachings indeed.
- Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
- A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
- Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
- Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
- Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
- Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
- Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of wastelands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
- Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
- Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
- Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.
The crazies use Marxist/Leninist _tactics_.
Their ideology is derivative of some Marxist ideas about “equality”—but for sure they don’t care about the working man since they have no intention of working.
They want to be the slave-holders and want the rest of us to be their slaves.