“The ones organizing it think they will have a neo-Marxist dictatorship with them at the top.”
I think it’s more like fascism than Marxism.
Fascism is a state-industry symbiotic alliance. They each scratch each other’s back. Fascism, unlike Marxism is not anti-capitalism. They know better than to kill the golden goose - they keep it domesticated, but don’t kill it.
It’s essentially what China is today. A one party fascist state.
And it’s what Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were. And they did rather well at the beginning. But then they let their success go to their heads and wanted to conquer the world. That was their downfall.
We seem to be heading in the same direction with our uni-party.
See the Hayek quote on my FR profile page. Third one down, two paragraphs.
There isn’t a nickel’s difference between the two, fundamentally. They’re both totalitarians. You could argue that those two were national socialists, while today’s totalitarians are internationalists, like the communists. There are different nuances and wrinkles depending on how you look at it, but the key point is that they are totalitarians who do not believe in limited government of, by, and for the people.