It seems to be the religion of the mentally ill.
Indeed.
“The religion of the mentally ill.”
Yes. And that makes it common currency in the various settings in which the lunatics run the asylum. Modern academia being a foremost example.
Marxism is a rationalization of the will to power. It is intellectually incoherent, but neurotic, angry people often don’t care about that.
Nothing but old fashioned emperor worship re-packaged with modern techno-babble.
Central to the ideology is the idea that the reason your life sucks, is because you are being oppressed by a conspiracy of the powerful, rather than due to any personal inadequacies.
This is a common factor with Marx, CRT, feminism, and other Leftist ideologies.